David C. Treen

David Conner Treen, Sr., (born July 16, 1928) is a retired attorney and politician from Mandeville in St. Tammany Parish -- the first Republican governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana since Reconstruction. He is also the first Republican in modern times to have served in the U.S. House of Representatives from his state. A narrow victor in the gubernatorial general election held in the fall of 1979, Treen served as governor from 1980 to 1984. He lost his bid for reelection in 1983 to his long-time rival, Democrat Edwin Washington Edwards. He served in Congress from 1973-1980. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... An attorney is someone who represents someone else in the transaction of business: For attorney-at-law, see lawyer, solicitor, barrister or civil law notary. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. ... Mandeville is a city in St. ... St. ... The Republican Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States of America, along with the Democratic Party. ... For other uses, see Governor (disambiguation). ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... Official language(s) de jure: none de facto: English & French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans [1] Area  Ranked 31st  - Total 51,885 sq mi (134,382 km²)  - Width 130 miles (210 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 16  - Latitude 29°N to 33°N  - Longitude 89°W... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... The House of Representatives is the larger of two houses that make up the U.S. Congress, the other being the United States Senate. ... A governor is an official who heads the government of a colony, state or other sub-national state unit. ... A general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are up for election. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ... Edwin Washington Edwards (born 7 August 1927) is a United States politician who served as governor of Louisiana for four terms (1972 - 1980, 1984 - 1988, and 1992 - 1996), more terms than any other Louisiana governor. ... Year 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ...

Treen was born in Baton Rouge to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Treen. He graduated from Fortier High School in New Orleans in 1945. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in history and political science from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1948. In 1950, he graduated from Tulane Law School and was admitted to the bar. In 1951, he wed the former Dolores "Dodi" Brisbi (November 23, 1929 -- March 19, 2005), a graduate of Newcomb College in New Orleans, whom he met while he was attending Tulane. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1951-1952. Treen joined the law firm of Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles. He was also a vice president of the Simplex Manufacturing Corporation of New Orleans from 1952-1957. Capitol Building Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana, a state of the United States of America. ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... Year 1945and died 2007 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... A B.A. issused as a certificate Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... The title page to The Historians History of the World. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Political Science is the field concerning the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behaviour. ... Tulane University is a highly selective, private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lady Justice or Justitia is a personification of the moral force that underlies the legal system (particularly in Western art). ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Newcomb College is the womens college of Tulane University founded in the late 19th century by Josephine Louise Newcomb in memory of her daughter. ... Seal of the Air Force. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Manufacturing is the application of tools and a processing medium to the transformation of raw materials into finished goods for sale. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ...

States' Rights Party elector candidate, 1960

In 1960, Treen opposed the election of both Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy as president and ran as an elector for the Louisiana States' Rights Party, which supported Virginia Democratic U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. In addition to Treen, the States' Rights electors included former State Senator William M. Rainach of Claiborne Parish (a defeated 1959 gubernatorial candidate) and Plaquemines Parish Judge Leander H. Perez, who was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church because of his outspoken opposition to racial integration. Another elector was the "Radical Right" figure Kent Courtney of New Orleans and later Alexandria. Still another was the anti-Long former Congressman Jared Y. Sanders, Jr., of Baton Rouge, son of former Governor Jared Y. Sanders, Sr. 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, or JFK, was the 35th President of the United States. ... Presidential Electors in the United States are the individuals who actually vote for Presidential candidates in the Electoral College. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... The United States Senate is the upper house of the U.S. Congress, smaller than the United States House of Representatives. ... Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. ... William M. Willie Rainach (July 13, 1913 -- January 1978) was a state legislator from the town of Summerfield in Claiborne Parish who led Louisianas Massive Resistance to desegregation during the late 1950s. ... Claiborne Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A governor is an official who heads the government of a colony, state or other sub-national state unit. ... Plaquemines Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ... Leander Henry Perez, Sr. ... Excommunication is religious censure which is used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community. ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Wycliffe Tyndale · Luther · Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      The Roman Catholic Church... Kent Howard Courtney (October 23, 1918--August 12, 1997) was a leading figure in the Radical Right of American politics from the 1950s to the 1970s. ... Alexandria is a city in Louisiana and is the parish seat of Rapides Parish. ... John Young Sanders, Jr. ... Jared Young Sanders, Sr. ...

Treen made it clear that his states' rights group was not affiliated with the National States' Rights Party, a group considered neo-Nazi, and, in Treen's words, "a disgrace to the term 'states rights.'" Treen's elector slate polled 169,572 ballots (21 percent) statewide. Jefferson Parish, Treen's residence, which would later support him in most of his campaigns, rejected the States' Righters and instead supported Kennedy with 51.8 percent. Nixon and Lodge electors received 230,980 (28.6 percent) in Louisiana, and Kennedy-Johnson won the state's ten electoral votes with 407,339 (50.4 percent). National States Rights Party is a far right party that found a minor role in the politics of the United States. ... Jefferson Parish is a parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. ... Nixon is the surname of some prominent people: Richard Nixon - 37th President of the United States Patricia Nixon - First Lady to President Richard Nixon Tricia Nixon Cox - older daughter to Richard and Pat Nixon Julie Nixon Eisenhower - younger daughter to Richard and Pat Nixon John B. Nixon - oldest inmate executed... Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. ... The United States Electoral College is the electoral college which chooses the President and Vice President of the United States at the conclusion of each Presidential election. ...

One of the Kennedy electors was popular State Attorney General Jack P.F. Gremillion, a part of the Earl Kemp Long organization, who would fall to scandal a dozen years later. Another was Edmund Reggie of Crowley, a confidant to future Governor Edwin Edwards and later a father-in-law of Democratic Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Jack Paul Faustin Gremillion, Sr. ... Earl Kemp Long (26 August 1895 - 5 September 1960) was an American politician and three-time Governor of Louisiana. ... Edmund M. Reggie (born 1926) is a Louisiana politician. ... Crowley can refer to: Aleister Crowley, the 20th century occultist Mr. ... Edward Kennedy Edward Moore Ted Kennedy, (born February 22, 1932, in Brookline, Massachusetts) is a Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts. ... Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 km²)  - Width 183 miles (295 km)  - Length 113 miles (182 km)  - % water 13. ...

Republican for Congress, 1962, 1964, and 1968

Treen joined the Republican Party (then still small in Louisiana) in 1962 to run for the U.S. House against Second District Democrat Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr. (1914-1972), of New Orleans though Treen's father had urged him instead to challenge Boggs for renomination in the Democratic primary. Treen, as a young Democrat in 1956, had supported then Republican congressional nominee George R. Blue in Blue's failed race against Boggs that year. Blue later switched to the Democrats and won election to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1964. Treen launched an $11,000 low-budget campaign in 1962 and polled 27,791 votes (32.8 percent) to Boggs' 57,395 (67.2 percent). His 33 percent in 1962 was some 10 percentage points higher than the 1960 Republican candidate, Elliot Ross Buckley, then of New Orleans and a cousin of the author William F. Buckley, Jr., had polled in is race against Boggs. Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The House of Representatives is the larger of two houses that make up the U.S. Congress, the other being the United States Senate. ... Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... George R. Blue, Sr. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... An author is any person(s) or entity(s) that originates and assumes responsibility for an expression or communication. ... William Francis Buckley Jr. ...

In 1964, Treen again challenged Boggs and improved on his earlier showing, helped by the popularity in Louisiana of the presidential candidacy of U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona. In that campaign, Treen polled 62,881 (45 percent) to Boggs' 77,009 (55 percent). Barry Goldwater Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 _ May 29, 1998) was a United States politician and a founding figure in the modern conservative movement in the USA. Goldwater personified the shift in balance in American culture from the Northeast to the West. ... Official language(s) English Capital Phoenix Largest city Phoenix Area  Ranked 6th  - Total 113,998 sq mi (295,254 km²)  - Width 310 miles (500 km)  - Length 400 miles (645 km)  - % water 0. ...

In 1966, Treen did not run for Congress; the GOP fielded the attorney Leonard L. Limes of New Orleans, who was badly defeated by Boggs. So, Treen tried again in 1968 -- his third and final campaign against Boggs, then the House majority whip. Boggs became majority leader in 1971 and was in line for Speaker. California Governor Ronald W. Reagan came into the district to campaign for Treen. Once again, though Treen improved on his showing, he was still short of victory. Treen received 77,633 votes (48.8 percent) to Boggs' 81,537 ballots (51.2 percent). 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1968 Gregorian calendar. ... In politics, a whip is a member of a political party in a legislature whose task is to ensure that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... Order: 40th President Term of Office: January 20, 1981–January 20, 1989 Preceded by: Jimmy Carter Succeeded by: George H.W. Bush Date of birth: February 6, 1911 Place of birth: Tampico, Illinois Date of death: June 5, 2004 Place of death: Los Angeles, California First Lady: Nancy Reagan...

Treen attributed Boggs' victory to the supporters of former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, who ran for president on the American Independent Party ticket. Treen claimed that Wallace supporters "became very cool to my candidacy. We couldn't really believe they would support Boggs, but several Democratic organizations did come out for Wallace and Boggs, and he received just enough Wallace votes to give him the election." Republican officials seemed convinced that fraudulent votes in some Orleans Parish precincts benefited Boggs and that Treen may have actually won the election. There were rumors of election officials who cast votes for people who did not show up at the polls and signed for them in the precinct registers. Treen did not contest the election because he believed that a challenge before the majority-Democratic House would be futile. Official language(s) English Capital Montgomery Largest city Birmingham Area  Ranked 30th  - Total 52,419 sq mi (135,765 km²)  - Width 190 miles (306 km)  - Length 330 miles (531 km)  - % water 3. ... George Corley Wallace (August 25, 1919–September 13, 1998) was an American politician who was elected Governor of Alabama (as a Democrat) four times (1962, 1970, 1974 and 1982) and ran for U.S. President (in 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976). ... The American Independent Party is a California political party. ... New Orleans (French: Nouvelle-Orléans) is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ...

First gubernatorial campaign, 1971-1972

Main article: Louisiana gubernatorial election, 1971-72

Treen first ran in the 1971 first and only Republican gubernatorial closed primary in Louisiana history. He defeated a minor opponent, Robert Max Ross (born 1933), a businessman from tiny Mangham in Richland Parish in north Louisiana. For the general election against Edwin Washington Edwards, Treen campaigned vigorously with billboards which said, "Make a Real Change," and television spots too, but he still lost. He polled 480,424 ballots (42.8 percent) to Edwards's 641,146 (57.2 percent) Treen carried 27 parishes, mostly in the north, with margins exceeding 60 percent in ten of those parishes. His tally was some 5 percentage points higher than Charlton Lyons had scored in 1964 against John Julian McKeithen. The confident and charismatic Edwards proclaimed that his administration would be an "Era of Excellence." The Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1971-1972 was held in three rounds. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... A primary election is an election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election (nominating primary). ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Mangham is a town located in Richland Parish, Louisiana. ... Richland Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ... Edwin Washington Edwards (born August 7, 1927) served as the Democratic governor of Louisiana for four terms (1972 - 1980, 1984 - 1988, and 1992 - 1996), twice as many terms as any other Louisiana governor ever served. ... Charlton Havard Lyons, Sr. ... John Julian McKeithen (May 28, 1918 -- June 4, 1999), a Democrat from the tiny town of Columbia in Caldwell Parish in northeastern Louisiana, was the first governor of his state to serve two consecutive terms. ...

The Shreveport Times and its sister publication, the now defunct Monroe Morning World, analyzed the gubernatorial returns and concluded that Edwards received 202,055 black votes to only 10,709 for Treen. In that Edwards' statewide margin was 160,000, the survey concluded that blacks made the difference. The newspapers said that Treen received some 30,000 more votes from whites than did Edwards. Look up black in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Election to Congress, November 1972

After a decade of service on the Republican State Central Committee, Treen was named as the Louisiana Republican national committeeman for a two-year stint that began in 1972. His friend, James H. Boyce, a Baton Rouge industrialist, served as state party chairman while Treen was national committeeman. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Business magnate. ...

That same year, based in part on the momentum from his losing gubernatorial race, Treen ran for the open Third District House seat vacated by conservative Democrat Patrick T. Caffery of Lafayette. He was a surprise winner, helped in part by the popularity of the Nixon-Agnew ticket, which carried 63 of the 64 parishes (exception: West Feliciana Parish) in traditionally Democratic Louisiana. Treen defeated Democrat J. Louis Watkins, Jr., of Houma, 71,090 (54 percent) to 60,521 (46 percent). His home parish of Jefferson helped to push Treen over the top with a 73 percent share of the vote. Lafayette, LaFayette, or La Fayette may refer to: // Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette (Marquis de Lafayette), French general and revolutionary (sometimes referred to as the Marquis de la Fayette) Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette (Madame de Lafayette), French author Elliston-Lafayette, Virginia La... West Feliciana Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ... Houma can refer to: Houma, Louisiana, in the United States Houma, Shanxi, in China Houma Tribe - A Native American group This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Treen's success was not duplicated for the Republicans in the nearby redrawn Eighth Congressional District. There the young Republican candidate, Roy C. Strickland, a native of Vicksburg, Mississippi, and then a trucking executive in Gonzales in Ascension Parish, polled less than one-sixth of the vote in his challenge to former U.S. Representative Gillis William Long. Strickland said that the GOP had hoped lightning would strike with the party's candidates running on the coattails of the certain reelection of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon. Roy Clifton Strickland (born September 20, 1942) is a businessman in The Woodlands (Montgomery County), Texas, north of Houston, who was a pioneer in the development of the Republican Party in Louisiana. ... Vicksburg is a city in Warren County, Mississippi. ... Gonzales is a city in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. ... Ascension Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ... The House of Representatives is the larger of two houses that make up the U.S. Congress, the other being the United States Senate. ... Gillis William Long (May 4, 1923 – January 20, 1985) was among numerous members of the powerful Long political dynasty who held public office in Louisiana during the twentieth century. ... For the pop band, see Presidents of the United States of America. ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ...

Treen served in the congressional seat from 1973 until 1980, when he resigned to become governor. As a congressman, he voted right-of-center and usually in accord with his party. He was considered a team player among House Republicans. In 1974, Treen won a comfortable reelection in a nationally Democratic year. He defeated State Representative Charles Grisbaum, Jr., of Jefferson Parish, who became a close friend. Grisbaum later switched parties, and when Treen became governor in 1980, Grisbaum served as one of Treen's floor leaders in the Louisiana House. In 1975, Treen was joined by his first Louisiana Republican colleague in the U.S. House when William Henson Moore (born 1939) won the Sixth Congressional District seat based about Baton Rouge and the Florida Parishes. Moore won the seat formerly held by the Democrat John Robert Rarick. In 1976, Treen polled 73.3 percent in a race against a weak Democratic opponent while the Democrat Jimmy Carter carried Louisiana over Gerald R. Ford. Year 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Charles H. Grisbaum, Jr. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... William Henson Moore, III, the president and CEO of the American Forest & Paper Association since 1995, was only the second Republican to represent Louisiana in the U.S. House of Representative since Reconstruction. ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Florida Parishes The Florida Parishes are those parishes in Louisiana which were part of West Florida in the early 19th century. ... John Richard Rarick (born January 29, 1924 in Waterford, Indiana)) is a lawyer, former Congressman, and former Presidential candidate. ... Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the 1976 Gregorian calendar. ... James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. ... Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. ...

Election as governor, 1979

In 1979, Treen filed for the jungle primary for governor. He finished with 297,469 votes, almost the exact numbers posted by Charlton Lyons in 1964 --284 fewer votes in fact than Lyons had in a two-candidate field. The second spot was hotly contested between Public Service Commissioner Louis J. Lambert of Ascension Parish (282,708 votes) and outgoing Lieutenant Governor James E. "Jimmy" Fitzmorris, Jr., of New Orleans (280,412 votes). In the jungle primary, all candidates run in the same initial election regardless of party label. ... Louis Joseph Lambert, Jr. ... Ascension Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ... James Edward Jimmy Fitzmorris, Jr. ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ...

In the Treen-Lambert general election, the defeated Democratic candidates, including the disappointed Fitzmorris, House Speaker E.L. "Bubba" Henry of Jonesboro, and State Senators Paul Hardy of St. Martinville and Edgar G. "Sonny" Mouton, Jr., of Lafayette, all endorsed Treen. Their support helped him to defeat Lambert by 9,557 votes. Treen received 690,691 (50.3 percent) to Lambert's 681,134 (49.7 percent). He won only 22 parishes in victory, compared to 27 parishes in defeat in 1972. Only ten parishes that had voted for Treen in 1972 stuck with him in 1979. His strongest parishes in victory were all in south Louisiana: Plaquemines, Lafayette, St. Tammany, and Iberia. E. L. Bubba Henry (born February 1936) is a Baton Rouge attorney, lobbyist, and partner of the high-powered firm of Adams and Reese who served as a reform Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1968-1980. ... Jonesboro is a town located in Jackson Parish, Louisiana. ... Paul Jude Hardy (born October 18, 1942) was the first Republican and thus far the only Republican to be elected as lieutenant governor of Louisiana since Reconstruction. ... The city of St. ... Edgar G. Sonny Mouton, Jr. ... Lafayette is a city on the Vermilion River in Lafayette Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. ...

In the losing 1972 campaign, all of Treen's strong parishes were in north Louisiana. The election of 1979 seemed to indicate that Lafayette would in time replace Shreveport as the new growth center of the Louisiana GOP. Treen's victory came from Republican inroads made in the Edwards stronghold of Acadiana, particularly Lafayette, Iberia, Terrebonne, Acadia, and St. Martin parishes, where the GOP nominee overcame large deficits from 1972 to win in 1979. Treen received only 3.1 percent of the black vote in victory, nearly identical to his black support in 1972 in defeat. Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Shreveport, Louisiana is the third largest metropolitan city in the state of Louisiana, USA. It is located in Caddo Parish, and as of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 200,145. ... Map of Acadiana Region with the Cajun Heartland USA subregion highlighted in dark red. ... Iberia Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ... Terrebonne Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ... Acadia Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ... St. ...

Running in the general election with Treen was Republican John Henry Baker, a farmer from northern Franklin Parish. Baker challenged Democrat Jerry Fowler of Natchitoches for the position of elections commissioner. Baker had proposed that the commissioner's job be abolished and the duties returned to the office of the secretary of state, where they had been originally placed prior to the late 1950s, when then Governor Earl Kemp Long created the new position as a slap at then Secretary of State Wade O. Martin, Jr. Baker was defeated by Fowler, son of outgoing Elections Commissioner Douglas Fowler of Coushatta in Red River Parish. John Henry Baker, III (born October 20, 1934), is a semiretired farmer and landholder from Franklin Parish who was active in the rebirth of the Republican Party in Louisiana during the 1970s and 1980s. ... Franklin Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. ... Jerry M. Fowler (born 1940) is a Baton Rouge businessman who, as part of a family political dynasty, was Louisianas state elections commissioner from 1980 until his defeat in the 1999 jungle primary. ... The city of Natchitoches (pronounced , or NAK-uh-tush) is the parish seat of Natchitoches Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. ... Earl Kemp Long (26 August 1895 - 5 September 1960) was an American politician and three-time Governor of Louisiana. ... Wade Omer Martin, Jr. ... Wiley Douglas Fowler, Sr. ... Coushatta is a town in Red River Parish, Louisiana, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 2,299. ... Red River Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ...

One way that Treen could promote the Republican Party as governor was with his appointments to state boards and commissions. He named the Alexandria businessman and philanthropist Roy O. Martin, Jr., to the Louisiana Board of Commerce and Industry. He named John Henry Baker to the Louisiana Athletic Commission, since renamed the Louisiana State Boxing and Wrestling Commission. Martin and Baker were both delegates to the 1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit. A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, or reputation to a charitable cause. ... Nickname: Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Location in Wayne County, Michigan Coordinates: , Country United States State Michigan County Wayne County Founded 1701 Incorporation 1806 Government  - Type Strong Mayor-Council  - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Area  - City  143. ...

Accomplishments as governor

A few hallmarks of the Treen administration were the creation of the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts, a statewide high school in Natchitoches for the gifted, the establishment of the Department of Environmental Quality, and the appointment of more minorities to state positions. The Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts (LSMSA) is a two-year, public residential high school located in Natchitoches, Louisiana on the campus of Northwestern State University (NSU). ... The Natchitoches are a Native American people. ...

Two Treen campaign confidants, John H. Cade, Jr., of Alexandria and William "Billy" Nungesser of New Orleans, worked as unpaid advisors in the administration. Cade had also managed Treen's successful congressional races in 1972, 1974, 1976, and 1978. He directed the successful 1979 gubernatorial race as well as the disastrous 1983 reelection attempt. Cade was the Republican state chairman from 1976-1978, and Nungesser chaired the GOP central committee as well from 1988-1992. John Hamilton Cade, Jr. ... William A. Billy Nungesser (September 30, 1929 -- January 21, 2006), was a gravelly-voiced, chain-smoking, and often combative leader of the Republican Party in the traditionally Democratic state of Louisiana during much of the latter twentieth century. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...

Treen obtained legislative passage of his "Professional Improvement Program" (or PIPs) for public school teachers, but the program was dropped in the next Edwards administration. PIPs allowed instructors to obtain small pay increases for taking college-level courses and/or attending intensive workshops to improve teaching performance. Problems developed when numerous teachers signed up only for classes with few academic requirements and shunned the more rigorous courses. Such action thereby negated the purpose of Treen's reform. Treen faced a heavily Democratic legislature, which many felt was taking orders from Edwards, sitting on the sidelines and waiting to run again in 1983.

During his gubernatorial term, Treen developed a reputation for indecision and micromanagement of details which frustrated supporters and angered adversaries. His failure to push for strong conservative policies and governmental reforms disappointed many Republican allies, as did his refusal to oust from his administration allies of former governor and his past and future rival, Democrat Edwin Edwards.

Treen also had a sharp critic in the lieutenant governor, Democrat Robert Louis "Bobby" Freeman, a former state representative from Plaquemine in Iberville Parish. Freeman, considered a liberal by Louisiana standards, vowed to exercise gubernatorial powers, as permitted under the state constitution, whenever Treen left the state, either on business or for pleasure. In 1983, Freeman supported the return of Edwin Edwards as governor. Freeman, meanwhile, easily won reelection in 1983 by defeating Edwards' first lieutenant governor, Democrat-turned-Republican Jimmy Fitzmorris. Robert Louis Bobby Freeman (born April 27, 1934) is a Plaquemine (Iberville Parish) lawyer who was the Democratic lieutenant governor of Louisiana from 1980-1988. ... The city of Plaquemine is the parish seat of Iberville Parish, in the US state of Louisiana. ... Iberville Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ...

Treen's wife "Dodi" was the first lady during his tenure. She was known for her graciousness and hospitality. She went out of her way to prepare the governor's mansion for the return of Edwin Edwards in 1984.

Facing Edwin Edwards again, 1983

Treen and Edwards were known as fierce rivals. During the 1983 election campaign, Edwards remarked that Treen is so slow that "it takes him an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes." Similarly, when asked for a scenario in which he could lose to Treen, Edwards replied nonchalantly, "If I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy."

In 1983, Treen lost to Edwin Edwards, who secured the third of his four terms as governor. In that race, Treen won only a handful of parishes, including rural La Salle Parish in north Louisiana, which supported him in all three of his gubernatorial bids. Treen received 586,643 (36.3 percent) to Edwards' 1,008,282 (62.4 percent). Another 1.3 percent was cast for minor candidates, one of whom was Robert Ross, who had also been Treen's primary rival in 1971. Treen polled some 104,000 fewer votes in losing in 1983 than he had in winning in 1979. Edwards polled more than 400,000 votes beyond what Louis Lambert had received four years earlier. La Salle Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ...

Billy J. Guin, a Shreveport Republican leader who managed Treen's northwest Louisiana campaign in 1972, said that Treen refused to show favoritism to anyone and went out of his way to demonstrate fairness to his political opponents. "It got to the point that he would not take phone calls from his longtime supporters because he did not want to tell them 'No'. This of course alienated his own supporters and contributed to his defeat in 1983," Guin said. Guin further blamed the legislature, still largely under the domination of Edwards even during the Treen years, for contributing to Treen's defeat. Billy James Guin, Sr. ...

In addition to Treen's own defeat, several Democratic allies of the Republican governor were unseated in the state Senate, including Daniel Wesley "Dan" Richey of Ferriday in Concordia Parish and Edward Gordon "Ned" Randolph, Jr. of Alexandria in Rapides Parish. Daniel Wesley Dan Richey (born October 31, 1948) is a Baton Rouge-based political consultant for pro-family candidates and organizations, including Louisiana Family Forum[1]. In 2004, he directed the grassroots organization for the successful campaign to elect U.S. Representative David Vitter as the first Republican U.S... Ferriday is a town located in Concordia Parish, Louisiana. ... Concordia Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ... Edward G. Ned Randolph, Jr. ... Rapides Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ...

Court appointment that never materialized

After Treen's defeat for governor, President Reagan nominated him for a seat on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans created by the death of veteran Judge Albert Tate, Jr., but the appointment was blocked by Democratic senators. Instead, the Senate confirmed Reagan's second choice, attorney John Malcolm Duhé, Jr., a New Iberia, later Lafayette, lawyer. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the following United States District Courts: Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts of Louisiana Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi Western, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of Texas The court is based at... Albert A. Tate, Jr. ... John Malcolm Duhé, Jr. ... The city of New Iberia is the parish seat of Iberia Parish, in the US state of Louisiana, 125 miles (201 km) west of New Orleans. ...

Earlier, Treen had been proposed as a judicial nominee to President Nixon, but Nixon never sent the nomination to the Senate. Many had long believed that Treen's temperament and talents were more suited to that of a judgeship than as an administrator or a legislator.

Nonetheless, Treen maintained political ambitions even after his landslide defeat for re-election as governor. In 1984, he filed candidacy papers to oppose U.S. Senator J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., but quickly withdrew from the race, apparently when polls showed the popular Johnston unbeatable even in a potentially national Republican year. Treen also considered, but did not make, gubernatorial bids in 1991, 1995, and 2003. John Bennett Johnston, Jr. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Treen endorses Edwards

In 1991, despite their differences, Treen endorsed Edwards' bid for a fourth term because the Republican choice in the state's jungle primary fell on former Ku Klux Klansman and state Representative David Duke, by then a perennial candidate who was troublesome to the GOP and the business community. Though Duke claimed to have ended his ties to the KKK, there was lingering suspicion that he was still in contact with neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, and other radical elements. Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, a candidate in presidential primaries for both the Democratic and Republican parties, and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. ... A perennial candidate is one who frequently runs for public office with a record of success that is either infrequent or non-existent. ...

Ironically, Duke won his single victory for public office, a seat in the state House of Representatives, by defeating Treen's brother, John, a longtime Jefferson Parish Republican operative. Many Republicans blamed John Treen's lackluster campaign in that race for Duke's emregence as a major player in the 1990 U.S. Senate race, when he made a strong bid against incumbent Johnston, and in the 1991 gubernatorial election, when Duke stunned the political community by winning a runoff berth. Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... The United States Senate is the upper house of the U.S. Congress, smaller than the United States House of Representatives. ...

Comeback attempt fails by 1,812 votes

In 1999, Treen attempted a political comeback, running for the U.S. House seat being vacated by Rep. Robert L. Livingston, who left Congress in a sex scandal amid the House vote on the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. This was the eighth election that Treen's name appeared on a Louisiana ballot for Congress. Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... For the Texas musician, see Bob Livingston (musician). ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ...

In the special election with David Duke, also trying to score a comeback, and Republican state Representative David Vitter, Treen finished first with 36,719 votes (25 percent) to Vitter's 31,741 (22 percent) and Duke's 28,055 (19 percent). (Six other candidates shared the remaining 33 percent of the votes cast.) In the low-turnout special election runoff, Vitter defeated Treen, 61,661 ballots (51 percent) to 59,849 (49 percent), a margin of 1,812 votes. The race against Vitter was a bitter contest, with attacks flying back and forth. Many of Vitter's colleagues in the state legislature, including Republicans, supported Treen and charged that Vitter was difficult to work with as a legislator. David Bruce Vitter (born May 3, 1961), American politician, is a Senator from Louisiana. ...

Duke ironically endorsed Treen over Vitter, perhaps to get back at Treen, hoping to defeat him, because Treen had supported Edwards against Duke in 1991. Vitter ultimately won the seat. In 2005, Vitter left the House to become the first Republican to be elected to the U.S. Senate from Louisiana since Reconstruction. It was as if David Treen had passed the GOP baton to the new generation guided by Vitter, who had not yet been born when Treen first appeared on a Louisiana ballot as a States' Rights Party presidential elector, much as Charlton Lyons had passed the baton to Treen in 1972. Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Treen in retirement

At 75, Treen declared that he would run for governor again in the 2003 election, but the party leadership coalesced behind young Bobby Jindal, who was born the year that Treen announced his first candidacy for governor. Treen withdrew from the pre-primary race and worked for Jindal's election. His last campaign consisted of his driving to candidate forums to present his views on state issues. The Louisiana gubernatorial election of 2003 resulted in the election of Kathleen Babineaux Blanco as governor of Louisiana. ... Piyush Bobby Jindal (born June 10, 1971, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a Louisiana politician. ...

Ultimately, Jindal lost the general election to Democratic Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Lafayette (who actually lost Lafayette Parish in the election). A year later, Jindal filled the House seat that Vitter vacated to become senator, the same seat that Treen had lost in his last campaign for elective office. In 2007, Jindal announced he is a candidate for governor in that year's election. Treen has recently said he may jump into the 2007 Governor's race. Categories: Stub | 1942 births | Governors of Louisiana ... Lafayette Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

Treen's old rival and reluctant ally, Edwin Edwards, meanwhile, went to prison for racketeering connected with his fourth gubernatorial term, the one that Treen had reluctantly blessed in preference to his greater nemesis, David Duke.

There has also been speculation that Edwards actually voted for Treen in the 1979 election because he preferred to face Treen again in 1983, rather than the other Democratic possibilities who were running for governor against Treen. Earl Long similarly often quietly voted for the "anti-Long" gubernatorial candidate himself to set up a potential new governor for failure. Earl Long would then run for governor again four years later against the "failed" (in Long's eyes) governor's stand-in. That was before Louisiana governors could succeed themselves in office.

There are rumors that, with David Vitter's involvement in the Deborah Jeane Palfrey sex scandal, Govenor Blannco will appoint Treen to the senate seat if Vitter retires and vacates the seat. Deborah Jeane Palfrey (born 1956) is the former owner of Pamela Martin and Associates, which the United States government alleges was a prostitution service in Washington, D.C. She has been charged with operating a house of prostitution. ...

Treen has been a widower since the death of his wife Dodi in 2005. He has three children, including Dr. David C. Treen, Jr., a 1984 graduate of the Tulane Medical School who practices in Jefferson Parish.

Treen is a distant relative of Robert Treen, co-inventor of the MIDI BrightEye.

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