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==Background==
==Background==
LeBlanc was born to Numa and Noemie LeBlanc in the farming community of LeBlanc near Youngsville in Lafayette Parish. The LeBlancs moved to Erath in Vermilion Parish, when he was a toddler. He considered Vermilion Parish as his home throughout his life, though technically he was not a native of that parish. He grew up speaking nothing but [[France|French]] and never lost his Cajun accent.<ref>{{cite book|title=Hank Williams: the biography|author=Colin Escott|author2=George Merritt|author3=William MacEwen|title=Chapter 12 the Haddy-Cole Bounce}}</ref> He graduated from Erath High School. When he turned eighteen, LeBlanc graduated from the institution now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, then known as "Southwestern Louisiana Institute." LeBlanc self-financed his college expenses by running a clothes pressing business at night. The operation was so successful that he reportedly helped to put two cousins through school as well.
LeBlanc was born to Numa and Noemie LeBlanc in the farming community of LeBlanc near Youngsville in Lafayette Parish. The LeBlancs moved to Erath in Vermilion Parish, when he was a toddler. He considered Vermilion Parish as his home throughout his life, though technically he was not a native of that parish. He grew up speaking nothing but [[France|French]] and never lost his Cajun accent. He graduated from Erath High School. When he turned eighteen, LeBlanc graduated from the institution now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, then known as "Southwestern Louisiana Institute." LeBlanc self-financed his college expenses by running a clothes pressing business at night. The operation was so successful that he reportedly helped to put two cousins through school as well.
After he graduated from college, LeBlanc became a high-powered salesman of [[tobacco]], [[shoe]]s, crude [[oil]], and, later, patent medicines. He was so successful that he sent each of his four brothers through college. "Then I went into the [[United States Army]] (as a sergeant). Educating my brothers took it all," LeBlanc quipped. However, one of his brothers, Raoul J. LeBlanc, was already serving in combat in [[France]] as a member of Louisiana's Washington Artillery during [[World War I]].
After he graduated from college, LeBlanc became a high-powered salesman of [[tobacco]], [[shoe]]s, crude [[oil]], and, later, patent medicines. He was so successful that he sent each of his four brothers through college. "Then I went into the [[United States Army]] (as a sergeant). Educating my brothers took it all," LeBlanc quipped. However, one of his brothers, Raoul J. LeBlanc, was already serving in combat in [[France]] as a member of Louisiana's Washington Artillery during [[World War I]].