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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 Party|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, 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>
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 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/>
In 2014, Whitney ran unsuccessfully in the primary for Louisiana's 6th congressional district seat vacated by [[Bill Cassidy]], a [[Baton Rouge]] physician who instead unseated [[U.S. Senator]] [[Mary Landrieu]]. Whitney lost out to fellow Republican [[Garret Graves]], who defeated former [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]] in the same congressional election held on December 6, 2014.
Whitney was unseated in the 2015 election by another Republican, [[Tanner Magee]], a [[lawyer]] from Houma. On October 14, 2017, Whitney finished in a relatively weak third place in the special election for the District 2 seat on the Louisiana Public Service Commission vacated by Scott Angelle, who joined the [[Donald Trump]] administration. Victory went to another Republican candidate, Dr. [[Craig Greene]], an orthopedic surgeon from [[Baton Rouge]], who led the race with exactly 43,000 votes (55 percent). The third candidate was Whitney's House predecessor, Damon J. Baldone, who received 19,058 votes (24 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical|title=Election Returns|date=October 14, 2017|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=October 15, 2017}}</ref> Baldone had held the PSC position on an interim basis since Angelle's departure in June by appointment of Democratic [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]].
Whitney was unseated in the 2015 election by another Republican, [[Tanner Magee]], a [[lawyer]] from Houma. On October 14, 2017, Whitney finished in a relatively weak third place in the special election for the District 2 seat on the Louisiana Public Service Commission vacated by Scott Angelle, who joined the [[Donald Trump]] administration. Victory went to another Republican candidate, Dr. [[Craig Greene]], an orthopedic surgeon from [[Baton Rouge]], who led the race with exactly 43,000 votes (55 percent). The third candidate was Whitney's House predecessor, Damon J. Baldone, who received 19,058 votes (24 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical|title=Election Returns|date=October 14, 2017|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=October 15, 2017}}</ref> Baldone had held the PSC position on an interim basis since Angelle's departure in June by appointment of Democratic [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]].