Edward James Gay III (May 5, 1878December 1, 1952) was a

United States senator The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States. The composition and powe ...

from

Louisiana Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...

. He was a grandson of

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Edward James Gay. Born on Union Plantation in

Iberville Parish Iberville Parish (french: Paroisse d'Iberville) is a List of parishes in Louisiana, parish located south of Baton Rouge in the U.S. state of Louisiana, formed in 1807. The parish seat is Plaquemine, Louisiana, Plaquemine. At the 2010 U.S. census, ...

, he attended Pantops Academy ( Charlottesville, Virginia), the

Lawrenceville School The Lawrenceville School is a coeducational preparatory school for boarding and day students located in the Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township, in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. Lawrenceville is a member of the Eight Scho ...

( in New Jersey), and

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

, from which he did not graduate. He engaged in the business of sugar production and the cultivation of various agricultural products. He was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1904 to 1918. Gay was elected on November 5, 1918, as a

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to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of

Robert F. Broussard Robert Foligny Broussard (August 17, 1864 – April 12, 1918) was both a United States Representative, U.S. representative and a United States Senate, U.S. senator from Louisiana. He was born on the Mary Louise plantation near New Iberia, Lo ...

and served from November 6, 1918, to March 4, 1921; he declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1920. He had lost his political power base, due to the advent of John M. Parker. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Coast and Insular Survey (Sixty-fifth Congress). Gay was president of a manufacturing company and of the Lake Long Drainage District in Iberville Parish; he died in

New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

in 1952. Interment was in

Metairie Cemetery Metairie Cemetery is a cemetery in southeastern Louisiana. The name has caused some people to mistakenly presume that the cemetery is located in Metairie, Louisiana, but it is located within the New Orleans city limits, on Metairie Road (and fo ...

in New Orleans.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gay, Edward James (1878 - 1952) 1878 births 1952 deaths Lawrenceville School alumni Democratic Party members of the Louisiana House of Representatives Princeton University alumni Democratic Party United States senators from Louisiana