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| succeeded2=[[Jerome Zeringue]]
| succeeded2=[[Jerome Zeringue]]
| birth_date=April 5, 1957
| birth_date=April 5, 1957
| birth_place=
| birth_place=Houma in Terrebonne Parish
| occupation=[[Business]]man
| occupation=[[Business]]man
| spouse= 1) Christine Bergeron Dove (divorced)
| spouse= 1) Christine Bergeron Dove (divorced)
Dove owns Copeland chain restaurants in Houma and [[Lafayette]]. His Vacco Marine is an environmental vessel tank cleaning company. He is also engaged in the cleaning of oil spills. His Doveland Corporation is a real estate firm.<ref name=mobilelgs/>
Dove owns Copeland chain restaurants in Houma and [[Lafayette]]. His Vacco Marine is an environmental vessel tank cleaning company. He is also engaged in the cleaning of oil spills. His Doveland Corporation is a real estate firm.<ref name=mobilelgs/>
Dove's only son, Gordon "Bubba" Dove, Jr. (June 7, 1986 – March 29, 2009),<ref name=ssdi>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=July 12, 2011}}</ref> had helped his father in the operations of the family holdings. At the time of his death, he was the president of Blue Marlin Oilfield and Equipment Rentals, Inc.<ref name=dovejr>{{cite web|url=http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20090331/OBITS/903319940?tc=ar|title=Gordon Dove, Jr.|publisher=houmatoday.com|accessdate=July 12, 2011}}</ref> The younger Dove died at the age of twenty-two in a sport utility vehicle accident on Interstate 310 near Destrehan. He was returning to Houma from a charity concert for [[Hurricane Katrina]] victims in [[New Orleans]]. Young Dove's vehicle careened across the highway, crashed into the right barrier, and overturned several times. His seat belt was not fastened. Partially thrown out the back window and pinned beneath the SUV, he died at the scene.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/dove.html|title=Son of Houma state representative dies in I-310 wreck|date=March 29, 2009|publisher=''New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=July 12, 2011}}</ref>
Dove's only son, Gordon "Bubba" Dove, Jr. (June 7, 1986 – March 29, 2009),<ref name=ssdi>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=July 12, 2011}}</ref> had helped his father in the operations of the family holdings. At the time of his death, he was the president of Blue Marlin Oilfield and Equipment Rentals, Inc.<ref name=dovejr>{{cite web|url=http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20090331/OBITS/903319940?tc=ar|title=Gordon Dove, Jr.|publisher=houmatoday.com|accessdate=July 12, 2011}}</ref> The younger Dove died at the age of twenty-two in a sport utility vehicle accident on Interstate 310 near Destrehan in St. Charles Parish. He was returning to Houma from a charity concert for [[Hurricane Katrina]] victims in [[New Orleans]]. Young Dove's vehicle careened across the highway, crashed into the right barrier, and overturned several times. His seat belt was not fastened. Partially thrown out the back window and pinned beneath the SUV, he died at the scene.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/dove.html|title=Son of Houma state representative dies in I-310 wreck|date=March 29, 2009|publisher=''New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=July 12, 2011}}</ref>
==State legislature==
==State legislature==