Jared_Young_Sanders,_Sr.

Jared Y. Sanders Sr.

Jared Y. Sanders Sr.

American politician

"Jared Young Sanders" redirects here. For this man's son, the U.S. Representative in the 1930s and 1940s, see Jared Y. Sanders Jr.

Jared Young Sanders Sr. (January 29, 1869 – March 23, 1944) was an American journalist and attorney from Franklin, the seat of St. Mary Parish in south Louisiana, who served as his state's House Speaker (1900–1904), lieutenant governor (1904–1908), the 34th Governor (1908–1912), and U.S. representative (1917–1921). Near the end of his political career he was a part of the anti-Long faction within the Louisiana Democratic Party. Huey Pierce Long Jr., in fact had once grappled with Sanders in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans.[1]

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He married Ada Veronica Shaw on May 31, 1891, and they had one son, Jared Y. Sanders Jr.[2] They divorced in 1912. Sanders remarried to Emma Dickinson in 1916.[3]

Jared Y. Sanders died at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge on March 23, 1944.[3]

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  1. [1]
    Richard D. White Jr., Kingfish (New York: Random House, 2006), p. 68.
  2. [2]
    The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XIV. James T. White & Company. 1910. p. 104. Retrieved December 14, 2020 – via Google Books.
  3. [3]
    "Death Claims Jared Sanders". The Crowley Post-Signal. Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Associated Press. March 24, 1944. p. 1. Retrieved December 14, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.

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