High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Speir Treen (born 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 the late David C. Treen, the first Republican governor of Louisiana since Reconstruction, whose last residence was in Mandeville in St. Tammany Parish.