{{Short description|American politician (1869–1944)}} {{redirect|Jared Young Sanders|his son, a U.S. Representative in the 1930s and 1940s|Jared Y. Sanders Jr.}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2011}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Jared Young Sanders Sr. | image = Jared Young Sanders.jpg | state1 = Louisiana | district1 = 6th | term_start1 = March 4, 1917 | term_end1 = March 3, 1921 | preceded1 = Lewis L. Morgan | succeeded1 = George K. Favrot | title2 = Governor of Louisiana | order2 = 34th | party = Democratic | term_start2 = May 12, 1908 | term_end2 = May 14, 1912 | lieutenant2 = Paul M. Lambremont | preceded2 = Newton C. Blanchard | succeeded2 = Luther E. Hall | title3 = Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana | order3 = 25th | term_start3 = May 10, 1904 | term_end3 = May 12, 1908 | governor3 = Newton C. Blanchard | preceded3 = Newton C. Blanchard | succeeded3 = Paul M. Lambremont | office4 = Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives | term4 = 1892–1896<br>1898–1904 | birth_name = Jared Young Sanders | birth_date = {{birth date|1869|1|29|mf=y}} | birth_place = Inglewood Plantation, east of Morgan City, Louisiana | death_date = {{death date and age|1944|3|23|1869|1|29|mf=y}} | death_place = Baton Rouge, Louisiana | resting_place = Franklin Cemetery in Franklin, Louisiana | occupation = Lawyer | alma_mater = Tulane University | signature = Signature of Jared Young Sanders Sr.png | spouse = {{Plainlist| * {{Marriage|Ada Veronica Shaw|May 31, 1891|1912|end=div.}} * {{Marriage|Emma Dickinson Sanders|1916}} }} | children =Jared Y. Sanders Jr. }}
'''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.<ref>Richard D. White Jr., ''Kingfish'' (New York: Random House, 2006), p. 68.</ref>
He married Ada Veronica Shaw on May 31, 1891, and they had one son, Jared Y. Sanders Jr.<ref name=Cyclopaedia>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZToOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA104 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=XIV |publisher=James T. White & Company |page=104 |year=1910 |access-date=2020-12-14 |via=Google Books}}</ref> They divorced in 1912. Sanders remarried to Emma Dickinson in 1916.<ref name=Death>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65285384/death-claims-jared-sanders/ |title=Death Claims Jared Sanders |newspaper=The Crowley Post-Signal |location=Baton Rouge, Louisiana |agency=Associated Press |page=1 |date=1944-03-24 |access-date=2020-12-14 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
Jared Y. Sanders died at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge on March 23, 1944.<ref name=Death/>
==Footnotes== {{reflist}}
==References== * "Jared Young Sanders", ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', Vol. 2 (1988), pp. 714–715 * {{CongBio|S000035|name=SANDERS, Jared Young|inline=1}} * 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. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080221040946/http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/tabid/391/Default.aspx State of Louisiana – Biography] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070127233419/http://www.legis.state.la.us/members/h1812-2008.pdf Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives 1812 – 2008]
==External links== * [http://www.la-cemeteries.com/Governors/Sanders,%20Jared%20Young/Sanders,%20Jared%20Young.shtml Cemetery Memorial] by La-Cemeteries * [http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/catalog/3/255 Jared Young Sanders Papers] at [http://www.hnoc.org The Historic New Orleans Collection]
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