Jared Young Sanders served as a Representative from Louisiana in the United States Congress from 1917 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Jared Young Sanders contributed to the legislative process during 2 terms in office.
Jared Young Sanders’s service in Congress occurred during a significant period in American history. As a member of the House of Representatives, Jared Young Sanders participated in the democratic process and represented the interests of constituents.
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. 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.
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