{{Short description|American attorney and politician}} {{Use American English|date=January 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2023}} {{infobox officeholder | name = Jerry Jared | image = Jerry Jared 95th General Assembly.jpg | alt = | caption = Official portrait of Jared, 1987 | state_house = Tennessee | district = 42nd | term_start = January 9, 1979 | term_end = January 10, 1989 | predecessor = Tommy Burks | successor = Dwight Henry | birth_name = Jerry Allen Jared | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1938|08|02}} | birth_place = Putnam County, Tennessee | death_date = | death_place = | party = Democratic | spouse = {{marriage|Sylvia Ena Fields|September 2, 1960}} | children = 2 | education = Tennessee Tech (BS)<br>YMCA Law School (LLB) }}
'''Jerry Allen Jared''' (born August 2, 1938) is an American attorney and former Democratic Party politician. Jared graduated from the YMCA Law School (now the Nashville School of Law) in June 1966 and was admitted to the Tennessee bar later that year.<ref>{{cite web|title=Grads To Hear George Cate|work=The Tennessean|date=June 5, 1966|page=8B|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117632632/|accessdate=January 31, 2023|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=137 Pass Tennessee Bar Exam|work=The Tennessean|agency=Associated Press|date=August 10, 1966|page=24|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13706730/|accessdate=January 31, 2023|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He was a delegate to Tennessee's 1971 constitutional convention and, in 1978, he defeated independent Bill Baird Griffith to win his first of five terms in the Tennessee House of Representatives.<ref>{{cite web|first=John|last=Haile|title=Cutrer Spills Dean of Senate Baird|work=The Tennessean|date=August 4, 1978|page=1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5590687/|accessdate=January 31, 2023|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> From 1985 until his retirement from the state house in 1989, Jared was the chair of the body's Democratic caucus.<ref>{{cite web|title=DeBerry Wins House Speaker Pro Tempore|work=The Leaf-Chronicle|agency=Associated Press|date=November 27, 1988|page=8A|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117694994/|accessdate=January 31, 2023|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
The only son of Clara Olene (née Gill; 1915–2011) and Luke Allen Jared (1915–1986), he married the former Sylvia Ena Fields on September 2, 1960.<ref>{{cite web|title=Miss Fields, Mr. Jared Are Wed|work=Putnam County Herald|date=September 15, 1960|url=https://www.ajlambert.com/jared/np_jfw.pdf|accessdate=January 31, 2023}}</ref> The couple went on to have two children: a son, Matthew, and a daughter, Jennifer.<ref>{{cite web|title=Clara Jared|work=Herald-Citizen|date=November 7, 2011|url=https://herald-citizen.newsbank.com/doc/news/13AE369E82518D38?search_terms=Clara%2BJared&text=Clara%20Jared&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=HCCB&pdate=2011-11-07|accessdate=January 31, 2023|via=NewsBank|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
In 2008, the Tennessee General Assembly passed and Governor Phil Bredesen signed into law a bill to name a portion of Tennessee State Route 111 in Putnam County "Jerry A. Jared Highway."<ref>{{cite web|title=SB 2762|publisher=Tennessee General Assembly|url=https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=SB2762&GA=105|accessdate=January 31, 2023}}</ref>
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