Andrew L. Sevier

Andrew Leonard Sevier Sr. (November 9, 1894 – March 26, 1962), was an American attorney from Tallulah, Louisiana, who served for thirty years from 1932 until his death as a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate. He represented the 32nd District, which then included Madison, East Carroll, Tensas, and Concordia parishes.

A descendant of John Sevier -- a fighter in the American Revolution, former governor of Tennessee, and the namesake of Sevierville and Sevier County near Knoxville -- he was a World War I veteran. A founder member of a Tallulah law firm, Spencer Sevier & Adams, at the time of his death, he was serving as president of the Federal Land Bank, of which he had been a member since 1933.

Personal life

One of six children born to George Sevier and Florence Arrenah (née Leonard) Sevier, he married Irene Jordan in 1918, with whom he had three sons.