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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. ==Background== 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Social Security Death Index )〕 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,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Agnes Angelle Hardy )〕 was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1934 to 1964 and House Speaker from 1957 to 1960.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2012 )〕 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.〔"Drauzin Angelle", ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', Vol. 1 (1988), p. 15〕 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 since 2000, also in Baton Rouge.〔 Florent Hardy and his staff have published ''Louisiana 2012: A Bicentennial Celebration of History, Culture and Natural Resources'' for the bicentennial year of Louisiana statehood.〔Robert Stewart, "Article idea germinates", ''Baton Rouge Morning Advocate'', April 22, 2012〕 Hardy was born in Lafayette, Louisiana.〔"Louisiana: Paul Hardy", ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2007-2008'' (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, New Jersey, 2007), p. 660〕 In 1960, he graduated from Cecilia High School. In 1965, he received his bachelor's degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, then the University of Southwestern Louisiana, from which his mother also graduated. While Hardy was on the USL track team, he won the Gulf States Conference high jump competition for two consecutive years. In 1966, Hardy received his law degree from Loyola University College of Law in New Orleans, and at the age of twenty-three, he began practicing law in St. Martinville with the firm Willis and Hardy. 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「Paul Hardy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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