Education
Nicholls State University.
Nicholls State University.
From 2000 to 2012, he represented Senate District 21. In 2012, the reconfigured district incorporated mostly Republican portions of Iberia, Lafourche, Saint Mary, and Lafourche parishes. At that time the district also included two precincts in Saint Martin Parish, since removed from the reconfiguration.
In the 1995 general election, Gautreaux defeated the Democrat-turned-Republican Joe Harrison, 8,457 votes (69 percent) to 3,809 ballots (31 percent).
Harrison was subsequently elected in 2007 to House District 51 and still holds the seat. Gautreaux attended Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
He served from 1967 to 1972 in the United States Navy. He is active in Rotary International, having been secretary of the Morgan City chapter.
Gautreaux has served as vice president of marketing for Marsianin Industrial Contractors Limited Liability Company in Morgan City and administrator for Arabie Trucking Services Limited Liability Company in Thibodaux.
Gautreaux sought the lieutenant governorship of Louisiana in a 2010 special election occasioned by the resignation of incumbent Mitch Landrieu when Landrieu became mayor of New Orleans. In a field of eight candidates Gautreaux, who had the official endorsement of the Louisiana American Federation of Labor-Congress-Chief Information Officer, polled 4 percent of the vote. Gautreaux was term-limited in the state Senate and ineligible to run in the October 22 primary.
His successor is Republican R. L. "Bret" Allain, II, who received 14,618 votes (514 percent) in the contest with another Republican, Darrin Guidry, who polled 13,846 votes (486 percent).
Number Democrat sought Gautreaux"s seat in the revised district.
From 1996 to 2000, Gautreaux was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 51 but vacated the post after the single term to run for the Senate.