Background
LeBlanc was born in Paincourtville in Assumption Parish to the former Camille Dugas and Joseph E. LeBlanc. His father was a parish official, a state senator, and a member of the United States House of Representatives.
LeBlanc was born in Paincourtville in Assumption Parish to the former Camille Dugas and Joseph E. LeBlanc. His father was a parish official, a state senator, and a member of the United States House of Representatives.
Tulane University Law School.
In 1908, LeBlanc received his law degree from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. In 1910, he was appointed for two years to the Louisiana State Board of Education. He practiced law in Napoleonville until 1920, when he began service as judge of the Louisiana 23rd Judicial District Court, which then served Assumption, Ascension, and Saint James parishes.
In 1929, LeBlanc was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Justice Paul Leche of the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal.
He was subsequently elected to the position and remained in the office until 1949, when he was elected to the Louisiana Supreme Court to complete the unexpired term of a chief justice. He left the court on December 31, 1954.
In civic activities, LeBlanc was chairman of his local American Red Cross and a trustee of his alma mater, Tulane University. Shortly before his death, he was named a Knight of Saint Gregory.
On August 7, 1912, LeBlanc married the former Elmire Lafaye (1889-1972).
The couple had five children, Samuel, II, Henry, Richard, Elmire, and Cecile. Samuel, II, later married the former Marcelle Reese and had two children, Sam A. LeBlanc, III, of Saint Francisville in West Feliciana Parish, and Marcelle L. Hickey (born 1940), who resides in New Orleans.
He was a member of the Roman Catholic men"s organization, the Knights of Columbus.