Lenar Whitney
| Lenar Whitney | |
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| Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from the 53 district |
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In office January 9, 2012 – January 11, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Damon Baldone |
| Succeeded by | Tanner Magee |
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| Born | February 1959 (age 57–58) Houma, Terrebonne Parish Louisiana, USA |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Lee Whitney |
| Children | Two children |
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Harris John Ledet (1933-2014) |
| Residence | Houma, Louisiana |
| Alma mater | Nicholls State University |
| Occupation | Businesswoman |
Harris John Ledet (1933-2014)
Lenar Marie Ledet Whitney (born February 1959) is a businesswoman from Houma, Louisiana, who is a Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 53 in Terrebonne Parish. Whitney lost her bid for a second term in the runoff election held on November 21, 2015. A year earlier, she had been an unsuccessful candidate in the nonpartisan blanket primary for Louisiana's 6th congressional district seat.
Whitney graduated from Vandebilt Catholic High School in Houma and obtained an associate degree in business from Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Since she was sixteen, she has operated a small business. She claims to have sales experience in oil field fabrication, repair and maintenance, and the media and telecommunications. Her husband, Lee Whitney, operates Whitney Signs Company in Houma. He was reared in Houma and Upper Caillou and established a lifelong friendship with the politically connected Chabert family. Whitney traces her family tree on the Ledet and Boquet side directly to the Bourg/Montegut's families. Whitney has two children, both graduates of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
In 2011, Whitney won the right to succeed the term-limited Democrat Damon Baldone by defeating fellow Republican Billy Hebert, a member of the Terrebonne Parish Council, 3,709 (59 percent) to 2,552 (41 percent). District 53 encompasses the Oakshire, Broadmoor, Park Avenue, Bayou Blue, Cocodrie, Montegut, Bourg, and Pointe-aux-Chenes sections of Houma, the parish seat of Terrebonne Parish. Whitney is the first woman to represent Terrebonne in the legislature and the first Republican to hold the District 53 seat. On September 19, 2014, Whitney received the "Outstanding Family Advocate Award" from the Louisiana Family Forum.
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