Background
He was born in rural Chauvin in Terrebonne Parish in South Louisiana.
He was born in rural Chauvin in Terrebonne Parish in South Louisiana.
The third-place candidate, Elward Brady, had switched to the Republican Party and finished with 19.6 percent of the vote in the nonpartisan blanket primary.
Chabert served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972 to 1980, along with Dick Guidry, Morris Lottinger, Junior., and Elward Thomas Brady, Junior., who represented other districts which included a portion of Terrebonne Parish. and in the Louisiana State Senate from District 20 from 1980 until 1992. In 1987, Chabert was again forced into a second race with Glynn Voisin. In the general election, he defeated Voisin once again but narrowly, 17,419 (515 percent) to 16,405 (485 percent).
A younger son, Norby Chabert of Houma, was elected to the same seat in a special election held in August 2009, upon the resignation of Reggie Paul Dupre, Junior., who had succeeded Marty Chabert in 1996.
In 2011, however, Norby Chabert switched to the Republican Party, which had already become the majority in the chamber. Leonard Chabert was employed at some point after 1988 and prior to his death at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge.
The Leonard J. in Houma, a regional acute-care facility, is named in his honor. The center began in 1978 as a teaching hospital providing clinical training to medical students and physicians.
In 2009, LJCMC completed a study of patients suffering from heart failure.
Some 42 percent of the patients there are Medicaid recipients. LJCMC is a surgical facility too. lieutenant has 156 beds. In his Senate campaign, Norby Chabert recalled his father"s dedication to bringing to Acadiana:
He knew what it was like to grow up poor and have no health care.
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lieutenant was his life"s mission to take care of the sick and the uninsured of the bayou region. Upon his death, his legacy of fighting for the medical center was rewarded by having "his hospital" renamed in his honor.