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Odon Lessley Bacqué, Jr., also known as Don Bacqué (born November 30, 1944), is a former No Party member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 43 in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, who served a single term from 1988 to 1992.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2016 )〕In 2014, he released a book of comedy about the foibles of the Vietnam War, in which he served from 1968 to 1970. ==Background== Bacqué (pronounced BAH KAY) is one of four sons of Odon L. Bacqué, Sr. (1917-1993), and the former Lydia Aponte (1920-2007), a native of Puerto Rico who attended college in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bacqué's brothers are Frank R. Bacqué, M.D., William J. Bacqué, and Jean Louis Bacqué (1949-1954). His Roman Catholic parents married in 1943 and moved to Lafayette, where he was born the next year. His mother, who held a degree in Chemistry, was a lab instructor from 1965 to 1986 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, then known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana. Bacque's parents and brother are interred at Lafayette Memorial Park.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lydia Aponte Bacqué )〕 From 1959 to 1961, Bacqué, attended Charlotte Catholic High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. He returned to Lafayette for his senior year to Cathedral Carmel High School, from which he graduated in 1962.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Odon Bacque (Class of 1962) )〕 In 1966, he obtained a bachelor's degree in History from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and planned to enter law school but instead faced conscription by the United States Army. He entered officer candidate school and served in the former South Vietnam with the 5th Special Forces, popularly known as the Green Berets. After his two years in the military, Bacqué returned to Lafayette, launched a life insurance business, was later named to the Million Dollar Round Table, and became involved in various civic affairs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Odon L. Bacque, Jr., CLU )〕 In 1982, as the president (now called chairman) of the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, Bacqué supported the consolidation of the Lafayette city and parish governments.〔 In 1983, Bacqué received the Distinguished Service Award given annually by the Lafayette Junior Chamber International. He organized a Vietnam Veterans group in Lafayette. He has served as the state co-chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Committee that built a monument in New Orleans to honor the 881 veterans from Louisiana who did not return from the war.〔 Bacqué is a past and current president of the Lafayette Estate and Business Planning Council. He is a past state president of the Louisiana Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, an organization of which he has been a member since 1970, when he entered the insurance business.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Odon Bacqué」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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