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Dodd recalled an incident when he was lieutenant governor between 1948 and 1952 in the second Earl Long administration and presided over the state senate. LeBlanc was accused by an unnamed north Louisiana senator of having a financial interest in some proposed law. Dodd said in his memoirs, ''Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics'', that "Dudley had a hard time getting gung ho for any political act that didn't help him personally." The two senators nearly came to physical blows. Then the whole Senate burst into laughter, and the two forgot their differences.<ref name=dodd/>
Dodd recalled an incident when he was lieutenant governor between 1948 and 1952 in the second Earl Long administration and presided over the state senate. LeBlanc was accused by an unnamed north Louisiana senator of having a financial interest in some proposed law. Dodd said in his memoirs, ''Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics'', that "Dudley had a hard time getting gung ho for any political act that didn't help him personally." The two senators nearly came to physical blows. Then the whole Senate burst into laughter, and the two forgot their differences.<ref name=dodd/>
==Running for governor again, 1944 and 1952==
==Running for governor again, 1944 and 1952==
LeBlanc's contributions to Cajun culture and southwestern Louisiana were deemed so important that his birth home, a small two-roomed Acadian-style wooden house built between 1821 and 1856, was relocated from his home in the LeBlanc community to Lafayette, Louisiana to the Acadian Village. This authentic re-creation of 19th-century life in Southwest Louisiana is an open living museum featuring homes like Dudley LeBlanc's on a bayou in a 32-acre park, with exhibits, demonstrations and even a chapel where weddings are held.<ref>{{cite web
LeBlanc's contributions to Cajun culture and southwestern Louisiana were deemed so important that his birth home, a small two-roomed Acadian-style wooden house built between 1821 and 1856, was relocated from his home in the LeBlanc community to Lafayette, Louisiana to the Acadian Village. This authentic re-creation of 19th-century life in Southwest Louisiana is an open living museum featuring homes like Dudley LeBlanc's on a bayou in a 32-acre park, with exhibits, demonstrations and even a chapel where weddings are held.<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.acadianvillage.org/#!house-around-the-village/c1hjd
| url=http://www.acadianvillage.org/#!house-around-the-village/c1hjd
| title = Acadian Village
| title = Acadian Village
| publisher=Acadian Village
| publisher=Acadian Village
LeBlanc invented a patent medicine he named "HADACOL" because he "had to call" it something, which became a best-selling patent medicine throughout the United States. Le Blanc devised never-before-seen marketing techniques to sell the medicine techniques never before seen in America.<ref name=fcmartin>{{cite book|url=https://www.alibris.com/booksearch?S=R&qsort=p&qwork=1336975&siteID=KLVmR9fE2yU-LcsUdqTmR6Odz.nkB9F.IA|title=Coozan Dudley LeBlanc: From Huey Long to Hadacol|publisher=Addison Wesley Company|author=Floyd Clay Martin|date=1974|accessdate=January 10, 2020}}</ref> In 1996 a documentary film entitled "Cajun Renaissance Man" about LeBlanc's life and his passion for his Acadian roots, his love of politics and his patent medicine was produced by his filmmaker granddaughter, M. M. Le Blanc, for [[PBS]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acadian.org/dudleyleblanc.html|title=Acadian Genealogy Homepage: "An Acadian of Belle Isle en Mer Remembers Cousin Dudley LeBlanc"|publisher=acadian.org|accessdate=January 10, 2020}}</ref><ref>M. M. LeBlanc, 'The True Story of the Acadians, 90th Anniversary Edition''; ''The Acadian Miracle, 50th Anniversary Edition,'' both books by BizEntine Press in [[Florida]].</ref>
LeBlanc invented a patent medicine he named "HADACOL" because he "had to call" it something, which became a best-selling patent medicine throughout the United States. Le Blanc devised never-before-seen marketing techniques to sell the medicine techniques never before seen in America.<ref name=fcmartin>{{cite book|url=https://www.alibris.com/booksearch?S=R&qsort=p&qwork=1336975&siteID=KLVmR9fE2yU-LcsUdqTmR6Odz.nkB9F.IA|title=Coozan Dudley LeBlanc: From Huey Long to Hadacol|publisher=Addison Wesley Company|author=Floyd Clay Martin|date=1974|accessdate=January 10, 2020}}</ref> In 1996 a documentary film entitled "Cajun Renaissance Man" about LeBlanc's life and his passion for his Acadian roots, his love of politics and his patent medicine was produced by his filmmaker granddaughter, M. M. Le Blanc, for [[PBS]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acadian.org/dudleyleblanc.html|title=Acadian Genealogy Homepage: "An Acadian of Belle Isle en Mer Remembers Cousin Dudley LeBlanc"|publisher=acadian.org|accessdate=January 10, 2020}}</ref><ref>M. M. LeBlanc, 'The True Story of the Acadians, 90th Anniversary Edition''; ''The Acadian Miracle, 50th Anniversary Edition,'' both books by BizEntine Press in [[Florida]].</ref>
On January 10, 1951, LeBlanc humorously recounted his French-language campaigning while a contestant on [[Groucho Marx]]'s [[NBC]] [[television]] quiz show, ''You Bet Your Life.'' When Marx asked LeBlanc what Hadacol was good for, he quipped, "It was good for about five million dollars for me last year."
==Obituary==
==Obituary==