VIPs and ordinary citizens are expected to descend on the State Capitol Monday as the first of two days of remembering the life and times of David Conner Treen , the state's first Republican ...

The state's first GOP congressman and governor since Reconstruction had contemplated becoming a Methodist minister in his youth, so it was only fitting that when former Gov. Dave Treen came home to ...

It's been said that Louisiana voters will forgive a politician almost anything except being dull. That maxim came to prominence during the tenure of former Gov. Dave Treen, but in the end it was Treen ...

I am in mourning. My very first political hero died this morning. Former Louisiana Gov. Dave Treen died at age 81 of a lung ailment. I was in touch just two days ago and they had no idea it was a lung ...

Former Governor Dave Treen who passed away today at age 81, will lie in state at the Louisiana State Capitol on Monday, November 2 nd, WAFB's David Spunt reports. The viewing will be open to the ...

Dave Treen, 81, who was elected Louisiana's first Republican governor since Reconstruction in 1979 but lost a reelection bid to flamboyant Democrat Edwin Edwards four years later, died Oct. 29 at a ...

Three former members of Congress have died in recent days. Three former members of Congress died in the past several days. DAVE TREEN: The former Louisiana congressman -- and the state's first ...

Former Louisiana Gov. Dave Treen, who became the state's first Republican governor since Reconstruction when he was elected in 1979 but lost a re-election bid to the flamboyant Democrat Edwin Edwards ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Former Louisiana Gov. Dave Treen, who became the state's first Republican governor since Reconstruction when he was elected in 1979 but lost a re-election bid to the flamboyant ...

The speculation is over for a potential Louisiana congressional candidate. Former Louisiana Governor Dave Treen will not enter the race to fill the vacancy left by Bobby Jindal. Treen did not give a ...