Jared Young Sanders Sr. (January 29, 1869 – March 23, 1944) was an American journalist and attorney from
Franklin
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, the seat of
St. Mary Parish in south
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, who served as his state's
House Speaker (1900–1904),
lieutenant governor
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(1904–1908), the
34th Governor (1908–1912), and
U.S. representative
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(1917–1921). Near the end of his political career he was a part of the
anti-Long faction
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within the Louisiana
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.
Huey Pierce Long Jr.
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, in fact had once grappled with Sanders in the lobby of the
Roosevelt Hotel in
.
[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.
Jared Young Sanders Jr. (April 20, 1892 - November 29, 1960) was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1934 to 1937 and again from 1941 to 1943. He was the son of Louisiana governor Ja ...
They divorced in 1912. Sanders remarried to Emma Dickinson in 1916.
Jared Y. Sanders died at
Our Lady of the Lake Hospital
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in Baton Rouge on March 23, 1944.
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Footnotes
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
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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
External links
Cemetery Memorial
by La-Cemeteries
Jared Young Sanders Papers
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The Historic New Orleans Collection
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