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Paul Hardy

Paul Jude Hardy
48th Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
In office
March 14, 1988 – January 13, 1992
Governor Buddy Roemer
Preceded by Bobby Freeman
Succeeded by Melinda Schwegmann
Secretary of State of Louisiana
In office
March 1976 – March 10, 1980
Preceded by Wade O. Martin, Jr.
Succeeded by James H. "Jim" Brown
Louisiana State Senator from Iberia and St. Martin parishes
In office
1972–1976
Preceded by Francis Romero
Succeeded by Oswald A. Decuir
Personal details
Born (1942-10-18) October 18, 1942 (age 74)
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Political party Democrat-turned-Republican
Spouse(s) Sandra "Sandi" Gatlin Hardy
Relations

Maternal uncle, Bob Angelle
Maternal grandfather, Drauzin Angelle

Brother, former State Archivist Florent Hardy
Children Gregory Paul Hardy
Yvette Hardy Gross.
Alma mater Cecilia High School
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
Profession Attorney
Religion Roman Catholic

Maternal uncle, Bob Angelle
Maternal grandfather, Drauzin Angelle

Paul Jude Hardy (born October 18, 1942) is an American attorney from Baton Rouge, in the U.S. state of Louisiana, who was the first Republican to have been elected lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana since Reconstruction. He served in the second-ranking post under Governor Buddy Roemer from 1988 to 1992.

Hardy's parents, who married in 1939, were Florent Hardy, Sr., (1913–2003) and the former Agnes Angelle (1904–2008) of Cecilia in St. Martin Parish. Agnes Angelle was a homemaker, schoolteacher, and principal who was visited at school by former state education superintendents T. H. Harris and Shelby M. Jackson. Agnes's brother, Bob Angelle, and hence the maternal uncle of Paul Hardy, was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1934 to 1964 and House Speaker from 1957 to 1960.

Agnes's father, and hence Paul Hardy's maternal grandfather, was Drauzin Angelle, a constable, deputy sheriff, and a Democratic power broker in St. Martin Parish during much of the first half of the 20th century. Paul Hardy has a sister, Mary Agnes Belleau and her husband, Dr. Charles Dewey Belleau, of Baton Rouge, and a brother, Florent Hardy, Jr., Ph.D., Louisiana's State Archivist from 2000 to 2013, also in Baton Rouge.


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