Jared Y. Sanders

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Jared Y. Sanders (1910)

Jared Young Sanders Sr. (born January 29, 1869 in St. Mary Parish , Louisiana , † March 23, 1944 in Baton Rouge , Louisiana) was an American politician and governor of the state of Louisiana from 1908 to 1912 . Between 1917 and 1921 he represented his state in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC

Early years and political advancement

Sanders attended St. Charles Jesuit College and Tulane University , where he studied law until 1893. He then worked as a lawyer in New Orleans . He was also a publisher and editor of several small newspapers. Sanders became a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1892 and 1896 and from 1898 to 1904 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Louisiana . In 1900 he was the Speaker of the House. In 1898 he was a delegate at a conference on the revision of the state constitution of Louisiana. Between 1904 and 1908 he was Lieutenant Governor of his state and thus Deputy to Governor Newton C. Blanchard . In 1908 he was elected the new governor.

Louisiana Governor

Jared Sanders took up his new office on May 20, 1908. He was the first Louisiana governor to be elected under the new pre-election principle. During his four-year term of office, child working hours were reorganized and an environmental protection commission was created. With the help of tax increases, the roads were expanded to cope with the increasing volume of traffic. In addition, a new law regulates the serving of alcohol ( saloon regulations ). After the death of US Senator Samuel D. McEnery in 1910, Sanders was named his successor in Congress . However, Sanders declined the appointment because he preferred to end his term as governor.

Another résumé

After the end of his term as governor on May 20, 1912, he initially worked as a lawyer again. Between 1914 and 1916 he was employed by the New Orleans Port Authority. He was then elected to the US House of Representatives in 1916, where he remained from March 4, 1917 to March 3, 1921. Right at the beginning he saw the announcement of the entry of the United States into the First World War by President Woodrow Wilson there in April 1917 . In 1921, Sanders was once again a delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention. In 1924 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention . In both 1920 and 1926 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US Senate. At the end of his political career he was an opponent of the influential Huey Pierce Long . Jared Sanders died in 1944. He was married twice and had the son Jared Y. Sanders Jr. (1892-1960), who was also a congressman between 1932 and 1942 with an interruption.

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SURNAME Sanders, Jared Y.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sanders, Jared Young
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Mary Parish , Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1944
Place of death Baton Rouge , Louisiana