Dave Treen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Dave Treen

American politician

Date of Birth: 16-Jul-1928

Place of Birth: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

Date of Death: 29-Oct-2009

Profession: lawyer, politician, military officer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Dave Treen

  • David Conner Treen Sr.
  • (July 16, 1928 – October 29, 2009), was an American attorney and politician from Mandeville, St.
  • Tammany Parish, Louisiana.
  • In 1979 he was elected as the first Republican Governor of the U.S.
  • state of Louisiana since Reconstruction.
  • It was a sign of changing party affiliations among white conservatives in the state, who have comprised a majority of the population since at least 1900.
  • In 1972 Treen was the first Republican elected in modern times from this state to the U.S.
  • House of Representatives. The long absence of Republicans from state positions, from the turn of the century through much of the 1960s, was due to the party having been hollowed out by the Democrats passing a new constitution in 1898 that disenfranchised most African Americans in the state, who made up 47% of the population in 1900.
  • But by 1900, two years after the new constitution, only 5,320 black voters were registered in the state, despite their advances in education and literacy.
  • They had constituted the majority of Republican Party members in the 19th century after gaining the franchise as freedmen and citizens in the post-Civil War years. Treen served as governor from 1980 to 1984.
  • He lost his bid in 1983 for reelection to his popular long-time rival, Democrat Edwin Edwards, who was returning after two previous terms.
  • Treen had earlier been elected to Congress in 1972, serving from 1973 to 1980.
  • Treen grew up as a Democrat, but joined the Republican Party in 1962.
  • At the time, there were about 10,000 registered Republicans in the state; African Americans, who had previously made up most of the party members, were still mostly disenfranchised.
  • By the time of Treen's death in 2009, only a few other living Louisiana Republicans had exceeded his length of tenure in the Republican Party.

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