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TDrauzin and Agnes' only son, [[Robert Angelle|Robert Joseph "Bob" Angelle]], served in the 1920s as the [[mayor]] of Breaux Bridge, also in St. Martin Parish, and thereafter as a state representative from 1934 to 1964.  Bob Angelle was also the House [[Speaker]] from 1957 to 1960 in the third [[Earl Long]] administration. One of their seven daughters, Agnes A. Hardy (1904-2008), who died at the age of 103, was a teacher and school principal from Cecilia and the mother of future Louisiana Lieutenant Governor [[Paul Hardy]], the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] to hold that office, with service from 1988 to 1992.<ref name=agneshardy>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405115040/http://www.avoyellestoday.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Agnes+Angelle+Hardy%20&id=8635494||title=Agnes Angelle obituary|publisher=avoyellestoday.com|accessdate=May 21, 2020}}</ref> Paul Hardy was hence a grandson of Drauzin Angelle and a nephew of Speaker Bob Angelle. Hardy's brother, Florent Hardy, Jr., Ph.D., has served as Louisiana's State Archivist since 2000.​

TDrauzin and Agnes' only son, [[Robert Angelle|Robert Joseph "Bob" Angelle]], served in the 1920s as the [[mayor]] of Breaux Bridge, also in St. Martin Parish, and thereafter as a state representative from 1934 to 1964.  Bob Angelle was also the House [[Speaker]] from 1957 to 1960 in the third [[Earl Long]] administration. One of their seven daughters, Agnes A. Hardy (1904-2008), who died at the age of 103, was a teacher and school principal from Cecilia and the mother of future Louisiana Lieutenant Governor [[Paul Hardy]], the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] to hold that office, with service from 1988 to 1992.<ref name=agneshardy>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405115040/http://www.avoyellestoday.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Agnes+Angelle+Hardy%20&id=8635494||title=Agnes Angelle obituary|publisher=avoyellestoday.com|accessdate=May 21, 2020}}</ref> Paul Hardy was hence a grandson of Drauzin Angelle and a nephew of Speaker Bob Angelle. Hardy's brother, Florent Hardy, Jr., Ph.D., has served as Louisiana's State Archivist since 2000.​

Drauzin Angelle's only elected position was as a constable for the Fifth Ward, a position that he held from 1914 to 1924, when he became the chief deputy under Sheriff Wade Omer Martin, Sr. (1885-1956), and continued in that capacity after Martin was elected in 1932 to the Louisiana Public Service Commission. Angelle hence remained chief deputy under a number of sheriffs who ran for reelection every four years along with the [[Governor|gubernatorial]] race, but Angelle as the power behind the sheriff remained chief deputy through three decades. Angelle was known as the organizer of "The Old Faction" and the "Father of the Fifth Ward".<ref name=angelle/>​

Drauzin Angelle's only elected position was as a constable for the Fifth Ward, a position that he held from 1914 to 1924, when he became the chief deputy under Sheriff [[Wade O. Martin, Sr.]], and continued in that capacity after Martin was elected in 1932 to the Louisiana Public Service Commission. Angelle hence remained chief deputy under a number of sheriffs who ran for reelection every four years along with the [[Governor|gubernatorial]] race, but Angelle as the power behind the sheriff remained chief deputy through three decades. Angelle was known as the organizer of "The Old Faction" and the "Father of the Fifth Ward".<ref name=angelle/>​

Angelle was tied to the [[Huey Long|Long]] political faction|faction as was Sheriff Martin.<ref name=angelle/> However, in the late 1950s, following the death of Wade Martin, Sr., son Wade O. Martin, Jr. (1911-1990) as the elected Secretary of State, quarreled with Governor Earl Kemp Long, who obtained legislative passage of bills to strip the junior Martin of much of the jurisdiction of his office. From this dispute, the since disbanded Elections Commissioner position, was established under the name "Custodian of Voting Machines." Martin ran for governor in the first ever nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] election held on November 1, 1975. Incumbent [[Edwin Edwards]] defeated both Martin and then state Senator [[Robert G. Jones]] of [[Lake Charles]], a son of former Governor [[Sam Houston Jones]], the leader of the anti-Long faction.  Wade Martin, Jr., like his successor, Paul Hardy, later switched his partisan affiliation from Democrat to Republican.

Angelle was tied to the [[Huey Long|Long]] political faction|faction as was Sheriff Martin.<ref name=angelle/> However, in the late 1950s, following the death of Wade Martin, Sr., son Wade O. Martin, Jr. (1911-1990) as the elected Secretary of State, quarreled with Governor Earl Kemp Long, who obtained legislative passage of bills to strip the junior Martin of much of the jurisdiction of his office. From this dispute, the since disbanded Elections Commissioner position, was established under the name "Custodian of Voting Machines." Martin ran for governor in the first ever nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] election held on November 1, 1975. Incumbent [[Edwin Edwards]] defeated both Martin and then state Senator [[Robert G. Jones]] of [[Lake Charles]], a son of former Governor [[Sam Houston Jones]], the leader of the anti-Long faction.  Wade Martin, Jr., like his successor, Paul Hardy, later switched his partisan affiliation from Democrat to Republican.