
Jared Young Sanders Sr. (29 January 1869-23 March 1944) was the Democratic Governor of Louisiana from 12 May 1908 to 14 May 1912 (succeeding Newton C. Blanchard and preceding Luther E. Hall) and a member of the US House of Representatives (D-LA 6) from 4 March 1917 to 3 March 1921 (succeeding Lewis L. Morgan and preceding George K. Favrot).
Biography[]
Jared Young Sanders Sr. was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in 1869, and he became a journalist and attorney in Franklin. He served in the State House from 1892 to 1896 and from 1898 to 1904, as Lieutenant Governor from 1904 to 1908, as Governor from 1908 to 1912, and in the US House of Representatives from 1917 to 1921, and he had a long rivalry with Huey Long, with whom he had once grappled in the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans. He died in 1944.