Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p 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. (1899-1977), 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 James R. Peltier, Sr.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.Peltier and his wife Irma G. Peltier, known as "Mickey," lost an infant son in 1952 and have three living children, Patricia P. Crum, Harvey "Drew" Peltier, III, 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, 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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- Harvey_Peltier,_Jr. abstract "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. (1899-1977), 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 James R. Peltier, Sr.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.Peltier and his wife Irma G. Peltier, known as "Mickey," lost an infant son in 1952 and have three living children, Patricia P. Crum, Harvey "Drew" Peltier, III, 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, 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.".