1. Lenar Marie Ledet Whitney was born on February 1959 and is an American businesswoman from Houma, Louisiana, who is a Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 53 in Terrebonne Parish.
12 Facts About Lenar Whitney
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Lenar Whitney was a member of the Louisiana delegation of the Republican National Committee.
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Lenar Whitney lost her bid for a second term in the runoff election held on November 21,2015.
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Lenar Whitney graduated from Vandebilt Catholic High School in Houma and obtained an associate degree in business from Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
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Lenar Whitney was reared in Houma and Upper Caillou and established a lifelong friendship with the politically connected Chabert family.
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Lenar Whitney has two children, both graduates of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
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In 2011, Lenar Whitney won the right to succeed the term-limited Democrat Damon Baldone by defeating fellow Republican Billy Hebert, a member of the Terrebonne Parish Council, 3,709 to 2,552.
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Lenar Whitney is the first woman to represent Terrebonne in the legislature and the first Republican to hold the District 53 seat.
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On September 19,2014, Lenar Whitney received the "Outstanding Family Advocate Award" from the Louisiana Family Forum.
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Lenar Whitney ran in the November 4,2014, nonpartisan blanket primary for Louisiana's 6th congressional district, being vacated by the physician Bill Cassidy, who was instead challenging Mary Landrieu for the United States Senate.
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Lenar Whitney finished a distant fifth with 19,146 votes of the ballots cast.
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Lenar Whitney stated that she believes that "many Middle East countries" want to "blow the United States off the face of the Earth," using funds from selling petroleum to the United States, citing no evidence.