| − | His father, Jesse Claude Deen (1922-2015), was a state representative from 1972 to 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2016 (Bossier and Webster parishes)|publisher=house.louisiana.gov|accessdate=February 2, 2013}}</ref>Deen was born shortly after his parents moved to Bossier Parish. His mother, the former Evelyn Young (born 1930), is a daughter of the late Casper Callaway Young, a Bossier Parish native, and the former Cardille Jones, originally from Simsboro in Lincoln Parish. | + | His father, [[Jesse C. Deen]], was a state representative from 1972 to 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2016 (Bossier and Webster parishes)|publisher=house.louisiana.gov|accessdate=February 2, 2013}}</ref>Deen was born shortly after his parents moved to Bossier Parish. His mother, the former Evelyn Young (born 1930), is a daughter of the late Casper Callaway Young, a Bossier Parish native, and the former Cardille Jones, originally from Simsboro in Lincoln Parish. |
| | His father is a native of Grant Parish, a retired educator at the Rocky Mount School in Bossier Parish, a former member of the Bossier Parish Police Jury, and a four-term state legislator.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/LABOSSIE/2003-07/1057207152|title=Jesse Claude Deen|date=July 2, 2003|publisher=archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=February 2, 2014}}</ref> | | His father is a native of Grant Parish, a retired educator at the Rocky Mount School in Bossier Parish, a former member of the Bossier Parish Police Jury, and a four-term state legislator.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/LABOSSIE/2003-07/1057207152|title=Jesse Claude Deen|date=July 2, 2003|publisher=archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=February 2, 2014}}</ref> |