Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p John Speir Treen (born February 1926) is a retired homebuilder from Metairie in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, who lost a 1989 special election for the Louisiana House of Representatives to the former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke. Treen is the older brother of David C. Treen, the first Republican governor of Louisiana since Reconstruction, whose last residence was in Mandeville in St. Tammany Parish. John Treen was born in Baton Rouge to Joseph Paul Treen, Sr. (1900–1986) and the former Elizabeth Speir (1899–1990). He had a second brother, Paul Treen, Jr. He is married to the former Martha Ann Swayze (born 1928). Treen has two sons, John S. Treen, Jr., (born 1954) of Metairie, and Ben Marcus Treen (born 1956) of Greenville, South Carolina. and two daughters, Betsy T. Anderson of Cypress, Texas, and Georgia T. Cole of Spartambirg, South Carolina.Like his brother Dave Treen, John Treen has long been active in the Louisiana Republican Party. Considered a particularly observant political commentator, Treen coined the expression: "All things being equal, Cajuns vote for Cajuns." In most statewide and congressional races since 1972 in Louisiana, the candidate from Acadiana, regardless of party, has won statewide and district elections. An exception to that rule came in 1987 when the Democrat Buddy Roemer, who defected to Republican in 1991, won without a general election when his Cajun intraparty rival, Governor Edwin Washington Edwards, withdrew. Another exception occurred in 2004, when Republican David Vitter defeated Democrat Chris John. Both were then U.S. representatives.. }
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- John_S._Treen abstract "John Speir Treen (born February 1926) is a retired homebuilder from Metairie in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, who lost a 1989 special election for the Louisiana House of Representatives to the former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke. Treen is the older brother of David C. Treen, the first Republican governor of Louisiana since Reconstruction, whose last residence was in Mandeville in St. Tammany Parish. John Treen was born in Baton Rouge to Joseph Paul Treen, Sr. (1900–1986) and the former Elizabeth Speir (1899–1990). He had a second brother, Paul Treen, Jr. He is married to the former Martha Ann Swayze (born 1928). Treen has two sons, John S. Treen, Jr., (born 1954) of Metairie, and Ben Marcus Treen (born 1956) of Greenville, South Carolina. and two daughters, Betsy T. Anderson of Cypress, Texas, and Georgia T. Cole of Spartambirg, South Carolina.Like his brother Dave Treen, John Treen has long been active in the Louisiana Republican Party. Considered a particularly observant political commentator, Treen coined the expression: "All things being equal, Cajuns vote for Cajuns." In most statewide and congressional races since 1972 in Louisiana, the candidate from Acadiana, regardless of party, has won statewide and district elections. An exception to that rule came in 1987 when the Democrat Buddy Roemer, who defected to Republican in 1991, won without a general election when his Cajun intraparty rival, Governor Edwin Washington Edwards, withdrew. Another exception occurred in 2004, when Republican David Vitter defeated Democrat Chris John. Both were then U.S. representatives.".