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Lafargue's brother, Arnaud D. Lafargue, served in the Louisiana House from 1916 to 1917. The brothers died the same year. Arnaud Lafargue was succeeded in the House by Willam A. Morrow, who eighteen years earlier had succeeded Adolphe Lafargue in the same position.<ref name=house/>
 
Lafargue's brother, Arnaud D. Lafargue, served in the Louisiana House from 1916 to 1917. The brothers died the same year. Arnaud Lafargue was succeeded in the House by Willam A. Morrow, who eighteen years earlier had succeeded Adolphe Lafargue in the same position.<ref name=house/>
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Oldest son Walter Lafargue of Thibodaux in Lafourche Parish,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lafargue&GSfn=Walter&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=91541057&df=all&|title=Walter Strong Lafargue|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 30, 2020}}</ref> was first the assistant principal of Thibodaux College and thereafter the long-term superintendent of schools in Lafourche Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.louisianacajun.com/msg/louisiana-cajun-forum-message-show.asp?id=24789&fid=202&tid=0|title=Genealogy search for Lafargues|publisher=louisianacajun.com|accessdate=February 18, 2011}}</ref> Third son [[Alvan Lafargue]] was a physician for fifty years and from 1926 to 1938 the three-term mayor of Sulphur in Calcasieu Parish in southwestern Louisiana. He had been one of the first settlers of Sulphur and founded a hospital and a bi-parish fair there.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-l/|title=Lafargue, Alvan Henry|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' (Louisiana Historical Association)|accessdate=July 30, 2020</ref> A Lafargue grandson, Malcolm Lafargue (1908-1963), son of Edwin Louis Lafargue, was from 1941 to 1950 the United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, based in [[Shreveport]]. He resigned to run unsuccessfully for the [[United States Senate]] against his fellow Democrat [[Russell  Long]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=103311402|title=M. E. Lafargue, Former District Attorney, Dies – Succumbs in Sleep Here at Age 54; Services Saturday|publisher=''[[Shreveport Journal]]''|date=March 28, 1963|pages=1-A, 4-A|accessdate=July 30, 2020}}</ref>  
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Oldest son Walter Lafargue of Thibodaux in Lafourche Parish,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lafargue&GSfn=Walter&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=91541057&df=all&|title=Walter Strong Lafargue|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 30, 2020}}</ref> was first the assistant principal of Thibodaux College and thereafter the long-term superintendent of schools in Lafourche Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.louisianacajun.com/msg/louisiana-cajun-forum-message-show.asp?id=24789&fid=202&tid=0|title=Genealogy search for Lafargues|publisher=louisianacajun.com|accessdate=February 18, 2011}}</ref> Third son [[Alvan Lafargue]] was a physician for fifty years and from 1926 to 1938 the three-term mayor of Sulphur in Calcasieu Parish in southwestern Louisiana. He had been one of the first settlers of Sulphur and founded a hospital and a bi-parish fair there.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-l/|title=Lafargue, Alvan Henry|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' (Louisiana Historical Association)|accessdate=July 30, 2020}}</ref> A Lafargue grandson, Malcolm Lafargue (1908-1963), son of Edwin Louis Lafargue, was from 1941 to 1950 the United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, based in [[Shreveport]]. He resigned to run unsuccessfully for the [[United States Senate]] against his fellow Democrat [[Russell  Long]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=103311402|title=M. E. Lafargue, Former District Attorney, Dies – Succumbs in Sleep Here at Age 54; Services Saturday|publisher=''[[Shreveport Journal]]''|date=March 28, 1963|pages=1-A, 4-A|accessdate=July 30, 2020}}</ref>  
    
Lafargue is interred at Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum No. 1 in Marksville.<ref name=findagrave/>
 
Lafargue is interred at Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum No. 1 in Marksville.<ref name=findagrave/>
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