Hypolite Gaspard

Hypolite was born in 1944 to Edval and Meaun Gaspard, 42 and 36. Edval hailed from Cow island where the family resided while Meaun came from the faraway city of Erath. Both were devout Catholics and raised their twelve children to be so as well. The family mostly spoke French around the house, but Hypolite slowly forgot the French as he grew up due to punishments in school.

The fourteen member household lived in a three bedroom shack, Hypolite's eight older brothers were either in school or in the military, while his two older sisters were married, and his two younger sisters were developing into fine young women. Hypolite's father, Edval was the ferry driver on the Isle Maronne ferry, while his mother Meaun worked in the fields to assist with cotton picking. When it came to his studies, Hypolite was at the top of the family, his father had no schooling, nor could he read or write, while his mother graduated fourth grade. He continued to study until he graduated High School in 1962. After Graduating from E. Broussard High, he went and joined the navy. Tragedy struck two months after joining, his father was diagnosed with cancer, Hypolite was honorably discharged from the navy and helped at home with his father until he died later that year. Hypolite began working in the various bars around the parish to help care for his mother, when in 1963, Hypolite met the love of his life, Angelle Thibodeaux. They were married at the end of that year, they used some of his navy check to buy a two bedroom home in Kaplan, and with much consideration, he decided to use the GI Bill to go to the nearby LSU College and study Political Science. He graduated college in 1967 at the age of 23, and in June of that year god blessed him with a daughter.

By 1967, Hypolite had 3 children. He became the Vice President of The Republican Men's Group of Vermillion Parish, and with that title under his belt, Hypolite ran for Kaplan Mayor in 1968. He won, he spent his first term desegregating the public pools of Kaplan, with little success, but did succeed in getting more funding for the colored schools in Kaplan. By 1972, there was a drastic rate in crime among the colored population. He decided it was time to run a campaign election that would gain him popularity in Louisiana, Gaspard For All Colors! Was his slogan. He was thrown much hatred from the large democratic groups around his Parish, but won by a landslide in Kaplan.

Hypolite petitioned the governor, his senator, and his representative, and many people claim he was the mastermind in ending the ERA in Louisiana. In 1976, it was time to leave the mayor's mansion. He went back into the shadows, had two more kids and by the mid eighties he was ready to run again!. He ran for US Representative of Louisiana's 3rd District but lost, but it gave him enough popularity and boosted his ego so much, that in 1989 he ran for Senator and Won! He was very influential in many of the governors decisions, for instance, he was a major voice in the debate against gay marriage in 1990 stating, "Louisianans aren't ready for that yet." He worked with the opposition and convinced many other senators to pass the IDEA Act, not to mention his unwavering support of the FACT Act of 1990. He convinced 12 of the 21 co-sponsors to co-sponsor the HEART Act of 1993. Hypolite called his friends in many states and made the Gingrich Revolution of 1994 possible. Supposedly he was a member of a secret advisor group to the Republican governors during his time in office. Hypolite stayed in office until 1995. Within his time in the senate, he was a key Senator, and if something was passed that he didn't like, he would tell the world, famously telling a reporter. "Tell those damn monkeys, we don't want their fraudulent, foolish, and down right ignorant acts in our state!"

With his newfound popularity and fame, he took a five year hiatus to regain his political strength. Tragedy struck again when his mother was killed in a car crash at age 92, in 2000. Knowing that she would want him to, Hypolite decided to run for US Representative again, the current senators had one year left to go, but Hypolite knew he couldn't wait, his mothers angel guided him along his campaign path. Hypolite won, and yet again he was a key member in congress when it came to many decisions especially after the 9/11 attacks. In late mid to late 2000, Hypolite was a major donor to the Bush Campaign just as he did in The First Bush Era. In 2001, an attack on our nation occurred, and after much planning, Hypolite co sponsored the Patriot Act, which he knew would protect our nation.

In his second term from 2002-2004 Hypolite, gained a major success in assisting in unifying the congress, in which both had a Republican Majority.

Later in his third term from 2004-2006, Hypolite had a choice to make. A few other representatives contacted Hypolite with war records of the democratic nominee for president. Hypolite advised the group of representatives to leak the War Record. When confronted about this, he told news reporters, "Listen folks, I was in the navy, I was there for a few months, I am honest, that democrat needs to be honest or crawl back into whatever crawfish hole he crawled out of."

In 2006, his own campaign came under attack, a woman named Jeanette Fitzgerald of Grand Chenier, Louisiana, claimed to have had his daughter. The people of Hypolites district knew what type of a woman Jeanette was so they ignored her, Hypolite knew the truth and that's why he paid her off until her death in 2014. Hypolite won his fourth term with 51% of the vote. Nothing major happened during this term, the issue came about in his fifth term.

In Hypolite Gaspard's fifth term from 2008-2010, a black man won the presidency. Hypolite was enraged, he said some choice words to a reporter about how the democrats were taking over, who then swapped his words around and make him seem like a racist, Hypolite still had his supporters behind him, when he decided not to run for reelection in 2010 on account of how corrupt the government was becoming. Hypolite was an average southerner, who knew who to rally, and for what cause. He later decided to retire from politics for the foreseeable future.

In 2019, Hypolite had a near death experience, his doctors found a shadow in his lung only for it to be a benign tumor,  in the hospital, Hypolite had a premonition of Louisiana and the country being run by democrats for the rest of Hypolites life, and he thought god was telling him to run for Senator again while he was still well and he did.