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'''Lenar Marie Ledet Whitney''' (born February 17, 1959)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/lenar-whitney/e469895211132|title=Lenar Whitney|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=September 13, 2017}}</ref> is a [[business]]woman from her native Houma, [[Louisiana]], who is a [[Republican]] former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 53 in Terrebonne Parish.

'''Lenar Marie Ledet Whitney''' (born February 17, 1959)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/lenar-whitney/e469895211132|title=Lenar Whitney|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=September 13, 2017}}</ref> is a [[business]]woman from her native Houma, [[Louisiana]], who is a [[Republican]] former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 53 in Terrebonne Parish.

In 2011, Whitney won the right to succeed the term-limited [[Democrat]] Damon Baldone. She defeated fellow Republican Billy Hebert, a member of the Terrebonne Parish Council, 3,709 (59 percent) top 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.<ref name=houmac>{{cite web|url=http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20111122/articles/111129914?p=1&tc=pg|title=Nate Monroe, "Terrebonne elections yield historic results"|publisher=''Houma Courier'', November 22, 2011|accessdate=May 16, 2012}}</ref>

In 2011, Whitney won the right to succeed the term-limited [[Democrat]] Damon Baldone, who later claimed Republican affiliation. She defeated fellow Republican Billy Hebert, a member of the Terrebonne Parish Council, 3,709 (59 percent) top 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.<ref name=houmac>{{cite web|url=http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20111122/articles/111129914?p=1&tc=pg|title=Nate Monroe, "Terrebonne elections yield historic results"|publisher=''Houma Courier'', November 22, 2011|accessdate=May 16, 2012}}</ref>

Whitney graduated from Vanderbilt High School in Houma and obtained an associate's degree in business from Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Since she was sixteen, she has operated a dance school. She has sales experience in oil field fabrication, repair and maintenance, and the media and telecommunications. Her husband, Lee Whitney, has operated Whitney Signs since the early 1980 and is a strong supporter of the [[Second Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]]. 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lenarwhitney.com/about-lenar-whitney/|title=About Lenar Whitney|publisher=lenarwhitney.com|accessdate=May 16, 2012}}</ref>

Whitney graduated from Vanderbilt High School in Houma and obtained an associate's degree in business from Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Since she was sixteen, she has operated a dance school. She has sales experience in oil field fabrication, repair and maintenance, and the media and telecommunications. Her husband, Lee Whitney, has operated Whitney Signs since the early 1980 and is a strong supporter of the [[Second Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]]. 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lenarwhitney.com/about-lenar-whitney/|title=About Lenar Whitney|publisher=lenarwhitney.com|accessdate=May 16, 2012}}</ref>

Whitney is the first woman to represent Terrebonne in the legislature and the first Republican to hold the District 53 seat. She describes herelf as a [[conservative]] pledged to reduce taxation and the size of government.<ref name=houmac/>

Whitney is the first woman to represent Terrebonne in the legislature and the first Republican to hold the District 53 seat. She describes herelf as a [[conservative]] pledged to reduce taxation and the size of government.<ref name=houmac/>

Whitney was unseated in the 2015 election by another Republican, [[Tanner Magee]], a [[lawyer]] from Houma. On October 14, 2017, Whitney is one of three Republican candidates for the District 2 seat on the Louisiana Public Service Commission for the seat vacated by Scott Angelle, who joined the [[Donald Trump]] administration.

Whitney was unseated in the 2015 election by another Republican, [[Tanner Magee]], a [[lawyer]] from Houma. On October 14, 2017, Whitney and Baldone, her predecessor in the state House, are two of three Republican candidates for the District 2 seat on the Louisiana Public Service Commission which was vacated by Scott Angelle, who joined the [[Donald Trump]] administration.

   

   

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