Jared Young Sanders

Jared Young Sanders Sr. was a journalist and attorney as well as a governor. Born January 29, 1869, on a plantation east of Morgan City, he was Speaker of the Louisiana House from 1900 to 1904, lieutenant governor until 1908 and governor from May 1908 to May 1912. He married Ada Veronica Shaw in 1891 and divorced in 1912. He returned to public life as a U.S. representative from 1917 to 1921, and late in his career he sided with the anti-Huey Long faction of the Louisiana Democratic Party.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Grevemberg House Museum — 0.8 mi
  Franklin's 1851 Greek Revival townhouse, the official St. Mary Parish museum, saved from demolition by one vote and set in the Franklin Historic District on Bayou Teche.
• Chitimacha Museum — 6.9 mi
  The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Charenton: the tribe's account of its territory, the French wars and enslavement, the land held in trust, and river cane baskets.
• Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum — 15 mi
  A Louisiana State Museum in Patterson on the world's largest cypress sawmill town and the Wedell-Williams racing planes, with a theater and changing exhibits.
• Cypremort Point State Park — 22 mi
  A 185-acre Vermilion Bay park reached by road, with a half-mile man-made beach, a marsh boardwalk, shore fishing and a boat launch, and a Chitimacha tradition of a great cypress here.

More markers nearby

• Franklin — steps away
• The Gunboat Diana — steps away
• Charles Austin O'Niell — steps away
• Battle of Irish Bend — steps away