Jerry Allen Jared (born August 2, 1938) is an American attorney and former

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politician. Jared graduated from the YMCA Law School (now the

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) in June 1966 and was admitted to the Tennessee bar later that year. He was a delegate to Tennessee's 1971 constitutional convention and, in 1978, he defeated

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Bill Baird Griffith to win his first of five terms in the

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. From 1985 until his retirement from the state house in 1989, Jared was the chair of the body's Democratic caucus. The only son of Clara Olene (

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Gill; 1915–2011) and Luke Allen Jared (1915–1986), he married the former Sylvia Ena Fields on September 2, 1960. The couple went on to have two children: a son, Matthew, and a daughter, Jennifer. In 2008, the Tennessee General Assembly passed and Governor

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signed into law a bill to name a portion of

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in Putnam County "Jerry A. Jared Highway."

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