J. L. Drexler Harvey Andrew Peltier Sr. (October 20, 1899 – November 12, 1977), was an attorney, banker, businessman, sugar grower, oilman, champion horse breeder, and politician from Thibodaux, Louisiana, who was a campaign manager of Governor and U.S.

Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr.[1] From 1924 to 1929, Peltier was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from his native Lafourche Parish.

[4] In the general election held on November 8, 1966, Peltier defeated for the state board a Republican candidate, businessman Charles deGravelles, a native of Morgan City residing in Lafayette who subsequently served from 1968 to 1972 as the state GOP party chairman.

[5] Bill Dodd was then the education superintendent, a position now appointed by the governor, and the then 11-member state board was all-Democratic.

From 1975 to 1980, Peltier Jr., was the first president of the trustees of the University of Louisiana System,[6] a successor education board of the one on which his father had served.