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 Louisiana, who served as his state's House Speaker (1900–1904), lieutenant governor (1904–1908), the 34th Governor (1908–1912), and U.S. representative (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 New Orleans.[1]
Jared Young Sanders Sr. | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 6th district | |
| In office March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1921 | |
| Preceded by | Lewis L. Morgan |
| Succeeded by | George K. Favrot |
| 34th Governor of Louisiana | |
| In office May 12, 1908 – May 14, 1912 | |
| Lieutenant | Paul M. Lambremont |
| Preceded by | Newton C. Blanchard |
| Succeeded by | Luther E. Hall |
| 25th Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana | |
| In office May 10, 1904 – May 12, 1908 | |
| Governor | Newton C. Blanchard |
| Preceded by | Newton C. Blanchard |
| Succeeded by | Paul M. Lambremont |
| Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives | |
| In office 1892–1896 1898–1904 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jared Young Sanders January 29, 1869 Inglewood Plantation, east of Morgan City, Louisiana |
| Died | March 23, 1944 (aged 75) Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Resting place | Franklin Cemetery in Franklin, Louisiana |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouses | Ada Veronica Shaw
(m. 1891; div. 1912)Emma Dickinson Sanders
(m. 1916) |
| Children | Jared Y. Sanders Jr. |
| Alma mater | Tulane University |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
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He married Ada Veronica Shaw on May 31, 1891, and they had one son, Jared Y. Sanders Jr.[2] They divorced in 1912. Sanders remarried to Emma Dickinson in 1916.[3]
Jared Y. Sanders died at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge on March 23, 1944.[3]
Footnotes
edit- ^ Richard D. White Jr., Kingfish (New York: Random House, 2006), p. 68.
- ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XIV. James T. White & Company. 1910. p. 104. Retrieved December 14, 2020 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Death Claims Jared Sanders". The Crowley Post-Signal. Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Associated Press. March 24, 1944. p. 1. Retrieved December 14, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
References
edit- "Jared Young Sanders", A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, Vol. 2 (1988), pp. 714–715
- United States Congress. "SANDERS, Jared Young (id: S000035)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- 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.
- State of Louisiana – Biography
- Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives 1812 – 2008
External links
edit- Cemetery Memorial by La-Cemeteries
- Jared Young Sanders Papers at The Historic New Orleans Collection