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Only five months into his first term in the state House, Ivey was listed by political analyst John Maginnis as a potential candidate in 2014 for Louisiana's 6th congressional district. This office was being vacated by Republican Bill Cassidy, who instead successfully challenged U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, a candidate for a fourth term. However, he ultimately did not run.

Barry Dee Ivey (born November 1979) is a businessman from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 65, the victor in a special election held on March 2, 2013.

In the 2013 legislative session, Ivey citing an excessive tax burden that discourages business growth in Louisiana, proposed a measure to phase out the state income tax over a ten-year period, with another bill to end the tax over five years, with special provisions for residents aged sixty-five and older. However, Representative Joel Robideaux of Lafayette, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said that such phase-out proposals are not "a prudent thing to do. The budget is not stable enough to just take money out of it.”

A newcomer to politics, Ivey defeated fellow Republican Scott Wilson, a member of the Baton Rouge Metro Council, to fill the seat vacated by Clif Richardson, a Republican legislator from Greenwell Springs, who stepped down in November 2012 because of cancer.

Opponent Scott Wilson said that he and Ivey are "very similar in nature ... as far as being conservative, but I just think I have more experience." Wilson was reelected in 2012 without opposition to his second four-year term on the Metro Council.

Ivey graduated from Central High School in his native Central in East Baton Rouge Parish and received a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He is the president of Pinnacle Precision Services LLC, which supplies piping/mechanical services mostly to the nuclear power industry. He is a member of the board of directors of the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee. A non-denominational Christian, he is a member of longstanding of Victory Harvest Church. He and his wife, Julie Marie Ivey, whom he married c. 1998, have four children.