Pete Heine

Who is Pete Heine?

Norman E. Heine, known as Pete Heine, is a former Democratic mayor of the East Baton Rouge Parish city of Baker, located east of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, having served from 1964–1976 and again from 1981-1992. Heine was the president of the Louisiana Municipal Association from 1967 to 1968.

Heine was born in Baton Rouge and attended public schools there before enrolling at the defunct Jefferson Military College in Washington, Mississippi. He served in the United States Air Force from 1948-1952 as a staff sergeant, participating in the Berlin Airlift and later serving as crew chief on an F-86 Sabre jet. Heine is the widower of the former Georgia Lea Pilcher, a pianist at the First Baptist Church of Baker. He is the father of five: Kathryn Earn Heine Overfield, herself a piano teacher in Zachary in East Baton Rouge Parish; Steven Kerry Heine, who died in 2002; Charles Norman "Chuck" Heine, George Lee Heine, and James Donald "Scooter" Heine.

Heine was an alderman and Mayor Pro Tem when he was elected mayor in 1964 to succeed the retiring Henry Grady Smith, Sr., who served from 1956-1964.