Talk:Dudley J. LeBlanc

Early years and military service
It seems like the last three sentences of this section do not pertain to the topic and belong in a different article titled Gubernatorial Candidates and Other Statewide Office Seekers from Abbeville Louisiana.

While mention of Charlton Havard Lyons, Sr., John Julian McKeithen, and especially Sammy Kershaw doesn't make sense on a page about Dudley J. "Coozan Dud" LeBlanc, all four of them (and many others) do belong on the above suggested Guber(...)s From Abbeville page.
 * Agreed. I removed them. Rks13 (talk) 23:40, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

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Neutrality Issues
This article sounds like it was written by an admirer of LeBlanc. Ideally, a reader should not be able to tell whether or not the author(s) liked or disliked the article's subject. For example, there is the line " LeBlanc was Cajun before Cajun was 'cool.'" That definitely must be removed. (We are also told, "And, yes, on more than one occasion Earl Long called LeBlanc 'a crook.'" which is cutesy and conversational in tone, and thus unfit for a Wikipedia article.) Another issue is that there is very little critical analysis of LeBlanc. For example, HADACOL health tonic was disingenuously peddled by LeBlanc as a cure for cancer, epilepsy, strokes, and tuberculosis, among other diseases. In fact, it did no such thing. The article should mention this, and in general be revised to assume a more objective, neutral tone. Skb8721 (talk) 02:21, 7 September 2018 (UTC)


 * I see now that a frequent early contributor to this article is a former Wikipedian "suspected of abusively using multiple accounts" and "banned indefinitely." His contributions may explain why the article seems to be sub par in quality.  --Skb8721 (talk) 02:27, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

CODOFIL Involvement?
Regarding the passage:

"In the late 1960s, he, along with James R. Domengeaux when he was a state representative and U.S. representative from Lafayette, worked to establish the interest group CODOFIL, or le Conseil pour le développement du français en Louisiane (the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana) during the term of Governor John McKeithen."

While it certainly seems like something LeBlanc would have actively supported and helped to spearhead, I have found no evidence that LeBlanc was actually involved in the creation of CODOFIL. For example, he is not listed among the many cosponsors of the bill creating CODOFIL in 1968. (The only LeBlanc listed as a cosponsor is J. Luke LeBlanc of Lafayette.) As a result, I'm going to remove this reference, but would have no problem with it being restored if anyone has a reliable published source for Dudley LeBlanc being actively involved in CODOFIL's founding. (One reason LeBlanc may not have been involved with CODOFIL is that LeBlanc and one of the actual CODOFIL founders, and the group's first president, James Domengeaux, were old political foes, as noted in Floyd Martin Clay's book Coozan Dudley LeBlanc: From Huey Long to Hadacol (Pelican, 1998) -- a book which, according to a digital search, doesn't even mention CODOFIL.

Moreover, Domengeaux was not a state representative in the 1960s as the article states ("In the late 1960s, he, along with James R. Domengeaux when he was a state representative. . . ."); and while it is true Domengeaux was a U.S. representative, that had been in the 1940s. Skb8721 (talk) 15:15, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

In further support of the removal of this secion, I read the book
 * Bernard, Shane K. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People. University Press of Mississippi, 2003.

and in there the author talks about CODOFIL and talks about Dudley and his Hadacol medicine. But there is no mention of Dudley being involved with CODOFIL.

KontributorKen (talk) 21:58, 26 June 2019 (UTC) KontributorKen

Inventor of Hadacol famous patent medicine
This section states that Dudley's medicine was "named "HADACOL" because he "had to call" it something." No citation is given for this statement. That statement has the sound of an urban myth, but it can be difficult to disprove. However, while reading the book
 * Bernard, Shane K. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People. University Press of Mississippi, 2003.

the author states on page 114 "... Hadacol, a term derived from the name of his new business, the HAppy DAy COmpany, plus L, his surname’s initial."

Should this section be modified regarding the origination of the Hadacol name?

KontributorKen (talk) 21:50, 26 June 2019 (UTC) KontributorKen