He represented House District 49, which includes portions of Iberia, St. Mary, and Vermilion parishes.
[2] He is the older brother of U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik of Lafayette and Suzanne Haik Terrell of New Orleans, the last Louisiana elections commissioner who served from 2000 to 2004 and the unsuccessful Republican candidate in the 2002 U.S. Senate race against the incumbent Democrat Mary Landrieu.
[3] Haik was first elected in 1975, when Louisiana established the still-used nonpartisan blanket primary.
[4] As a legislator, Haik was chairman of the House Insurance and Capital Outlay committees and the Subcommittee on the Environment.
[3] In 1982, Haik joined three business partners in the purchase for $12.4 million of the Evangeline Downs racetrack in Lafayette.