Jared Y. Sanders Sr.

Jared Young Sanders Sr. was an American journalist and attorney from Franklin, the seat of St. Mary [Parish, Louisiana|St. Mary Parish] in south Louisiana, who served as his state's Speaker of the [Louisiana House of Representatives|House Speaker], Lieutenant [Governor of Louisiana|lieutenant governor], the 34th governor, and U.S. representative. 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 The [Fairmont Hotel New Orleans|Roosevelt Hotel] in New Orleans.
He married Ada Veronica Shaw on May 31, 1891, and they had one son, Jared Y. Sanders Jr. They divorced in 1912. Sanders remarried to Emma Dickinson in 1916.
Jared Y. Sanders died at Our [Lady of the Lake Hospital] in Baton Rouge on March 23, 1944.