# Jerry Jared

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{{Short description|American attorney and politician}}
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{{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](/source/Tommy_Burks)
| successor   = [Dwight Henry](/source/Dwight_Henry_(politician))
| birth_name  = Jerry Allen Jared
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1938|08|02}}
| birth_place = [Putnam County, Tennessee](/source/Putnam_County%2C_Tennessee)
| death_date  = 
| death_place = 
| party       = [Democratic](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States))
| spouse      = {{marriage|Sylvia Ena Fields|September 2, 1960}}
| children    = 2
| education   = [Tennessee Tech](/source/Tennessee_Tech) ([BS](/source/Bachelor_of_Science))<br>[YMCA Law School](/source/Nashville_School_of_Law) ([LLB](/source/Bachelor_of_Laws)) 
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'''Jerry Allen Jared''' (born August 2, 1938) is an American attorney and former [Democratic Party](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States)) politician. Jared graduated from the YMCA Law School (now the [Nashville School of Law](/source/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](/source/The_Tennessean)|date=June 5, 1966|page=8B|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117632632/|accessdate=January 31, 2023|via=[Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=137 Pass Tennessee Bar Exam|work=[The Tennessean](/source/The_Tennessean)|agency=[Associated Press](/source/Associated_Press)|date=August 10, 1966|page=24|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13706730/|accessdate=January 31, 2023|via=[Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com)}}</ref> He was a delegate to Tennessee's 1971 constitutional convention and, in 1978, he defeated [independent](/source/Independent_politician) Bill Baird Griffith to win his first of five terms in the [Tennessee House of Representatives](/source/Tennessee_House_of_Representatives).<ref>{{cite web|first=John|last=Haile|title=Cutrer Spills Dean of Senate Baird|work=[The Tennessean](/source/The_Tennessean)|date=August 4, 1978|page=1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5590687/|accessdate=January 31, 2023|via=[Newspapers.com](/source/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](/source/The_Leaf-Chronicle)|agency=[Associated Press](/source/Associated_Press)|date=November 27, 1988|page=8A|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117694994/|accessdate=January 31, 2023|via=[Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com)}}</ref>

The only son of Clara Olene ([née](/source/n%C3%A9e) 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](/source/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](/source/NewsBank)|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

In 2008, the Tennessee General Assembly passed and Governor [Phil Bredesen](/source/Phil_Bredesen) signed into law a bill to name a portion of [Tennessee State Route 111](/source/Tennessee_State_Route_111) in [Putnam County](/source/Putnam_County%2C_Tennessee) "Jerry A. Jared Highway."<ref>{{cite web|title=SB 2762|publisher=[Tennessee General Assembly](/source/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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