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

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, who served as his state's House Speaker (1900–1904),

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(1904–1908), the 34th Governor (1908–1912), and

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(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

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.Richard D. White Jr., ''Kingfish'' (New York: Random House, 2006), p. 68. He married Ada Veronica Shaw on May 31, 1891, and they had one son, Jared Y. Sanders Jr. They divorced in 1912. Sanders remarried to Emma Dickinson in 1916. Jared Y. Sanders died at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge on March 23, 1944.

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References

* "Jared Young Sanders", ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', Vol. 2 (1988), pp. 714–715 * * Mary E. Sanders, "The Political Career of Jared Young Sandrs, 1892–1912", Master's thesis (1955), Louisiana State University. * Miriam G. Reeves, ''Governors of Louisiana'' (1980) * Robert Sobel and John Raimo, ''Biographical Directory of the Governors of the U.S.'' (1978) * ''Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections'', U.S. Senate elections from Louisiana, 1908, 1920, and 1926.
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Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives 1812 – 2008

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