Jared Y. Sanders Sr. Explained

Jared Young Sanders Sr.
State1:Louisiana
District1:6th
Term Start1:March 4, 1917
Term End1:March 3, 1921
Preceded1:Lewis L. Morgan
Succeeded1:George K. Favrot
Title2:Governor of Louisiana
Order2:34th
Party:Democratic
Term Start2:May 12, 1908
Term End2:May 14, 1912
Lieutenant2:Paul M. Lambremont
Preceded2:Newton C. Blanchard
Succeeded2:Luther E. Hall
Title3:Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
Order3:25th
Term Start3:May 10, 1904
Term End3:May 12, 1908
Governor3:Newton C. Blanchard
Preceded3:Newton C. Blanchard
Succeeded3:Paul M. Lambremont
Office4:Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
Term4:1892–1896
1898–1904
Birth Name:Jared Young Sanders
Birth Date:January 29, 1869
Birth Place:Inglewood Plantation, east of Morgan City, Louisiana
Death Place:Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Resting Place:Franklin Cemetery in Franklin, Louisiana
Occupation:Lawyer
Alma Mater:Tulane University
Signature:Signature of Jared Young Sanders Sr.png

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]

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. Richard D. White Jr., Kingfish (New York: Random House, 2006), p. 68.
  2. Book: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography . XIV . James T. White & Company . 104 . 1910 . 2020-12-14 . Google Books.
  3. News: Death Claims Jared Sanders . The Crowley Post-Signal . Baton Rouge, Louisiana . Associated Press . 1 . 1944-03-24 . 2020-12-14 . Newspapers.com.