Harvey Andrew Peltier Jr. (January 18, 1923 – December 5, 1980), was from 1964 to 1976 a member of the
Louisiana State Senate
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parishes
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in
South Louisiana
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. He served alongside
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, senator from Terrebonne and
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parishes.
Peltier resided in his native Thibodaux,
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,
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, which nominated the Truman- Barkley ticket. He was appointed in 1975 by
Governor
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Edwin Edwards
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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., an attorney, banker, and horse breeder, a political confidante of and a campaign manager for
Governor
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and
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Louisiana House of Representatives
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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
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.
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 Dr. James R. Peltier, Sr. (1930-May 22, 2020), a Thibodaux oral surgeon, a founder and president of the Louisiana Society of Oral Surgeons, an d member of the "good government" groups the Public Affairs Research Council and the Council for a Better Louisiana.(born 1930), a member of the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors. Peltier's brother-in-law, Warren Harang Jr. (1921–2005), was a former president of the Thibodaux
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and the American Sugar Cane League, a member of the
Lafourche Parish School Board
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, and the mayor of Thibodaux from 1968 to 1978, 1986–1990, and 1994–1998.
In 1945, Peltier married Irma Mary Geheeb (1924-2014), the third daughter of Albert John and Cleo Belou Geheeb. Known as "Mickey", she graduated from the former Ursuline College, now Ursuline Academy, in her native
St. John the Baptist Parish
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.
The Peltier family is interred in the family tomb at St. Joseph Cemetery in Thibodaux.
In February 2014, four months before the death of his wife, Peltier Jr. was posthumously inducted into the
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in Winnfield. Peltier's colleague in the Louisiana House, Richard P. "Dick" Guidry of Lafourche Parish, was inducted in the same ceremony.