Harvey Peltier Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetHarvey Peltier Jr.
Louisiana politician
Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1923
Place of Birth: Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States
Date of Death: 05-Dec-1980
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Harvey Peltier Jr.
- Harvey Andrew Peltier Jr.
- (January 18, 1923 – December 5, 1980), was from 1964 to 1976 a member of the Louisiana State Senate from District 21, which included Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes in South Louisiana.
- He served alongside Claude B.
- Duval, senator from Terrebonne and St.
- Mary parishes.Peltier resided in his native Thibodaux, Louisiana.
- At the age of twenty-five, he was a delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which nominated the Truman-Barkley ticket.
- He was appointed in 1975 by Governor Edwin Edwards as a trustee of the University of Louisiana System and was its first president from 1975 until his death in 1980.Peltier's father, Harvey Peltier Sr., an attorney, banker, and horse breeder, a political confidante of and a campaign manager for Governor and U.S.
- Senator Huey Pierce Long Jr.
- was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1924 to 1929 and held the same senate seat as his son, from 1930 to 1940.
- Peltier Sr.
- also served on the former Louisiana State Board of Education as the elected member from Louisiana's 3rd congressional district.Peltier's mother was the former May Ayo (1902-1992).
- He had a sister, Bernice P.
- Harang, and three brothers, Donald Louis Peltier (1926-2008), Richard Benton Peltier (1938-2007), and Dr.
- James R.
- Peltier (born 1930), a member of the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors.
- Peltier's brother-in-law, Warren Harang Jr.
- (1921–2005), was a former president of the Thibodaux Chamber of Commerce and the American Sugar Cane League, a member of the Lafourche Parish School Board, and the mayor of Thibodaux from 1968–1978, 1986–1990, and 1994–1998.In 1945, Peltier married Irma Mary Geheeb (1924-2014), the third daughter of Albert John and Cleo Belou Geheeb.
- Known as "Mickey", she graduated from the former Ursuline College, now Ursuline Academy, in her native New Orleans.
- The Peltiers lost an infant son in 1952 and have three surviving children, Patricia P.
- Crum, Harvey "Drew" Peltier III, and wife Linda, and Mary Ellen Peltier.
- Peltier's son-in-law, John Mitchell Crum (1945-2012), was a district attorney of the 40th Judicial District of St.
- John the Baptist Parish.The Peltier family is interred in the family tomb at St.
- Joseph Cemetery in Thibodaux.In February 2014, four months before the death of his wife, Peltier Jr.
- was posthumously inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.
- Peltier's colleague in the Louisiana House, Richard P.
- "Dick" Guidry of Lafourche Parish, was inducted in the same ceremony.
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