Jerry Jared

Jerry Jared
Official portrait of Jared, 1987
Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives
from the 42nd district
In office
January 9, 1979 – January 10, 1989
Preceded byTommy Burks
Succeeded byDwight Henry
Personal details
Born
Jerry Allen Jared

(1938-08-02) August 2, 1938 (age 86)
Putnam County, Tennessee
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Sylvia Ena Fields
​
(m. 1960)​
Children2
ResidenceCookeville, Tennessee
EducationTennessee Tech (BS)
YMCA Law School (LLB)

Jerry Allen Jared (born August 2, 1938) is an American attorney and former Democratic Party politician. Jared graduated from the YMCA Law School (now the Nashville School of Law) in June 1966 and was admitted to the Tennessee bar later that year.[1][2] He was a delegate to Tennessee's 1971 constitutional convention and, in 1978, he defeated independent Bill Baird Griffith to win his first of five terms in the Tennessee House of Representatives.[3] From 1985 until his retirement from the state house in 1989, Jared was the chair of the body's Democratic caucus.[4]

The only son of Clara Olene (née Gill; 1915–2011) and Luke Allen Jared (1915–1986), he married the former Sylvia Ena Fields on September 2, 1960.[5] The couple went on to have two children: a son, Matthew, and a daughter, Jennifer.[6]

In 2008, the Tennessee General Assembly passed and Governor Phil Bredesen signed into law a bill to name a portion of Tennessee State Route 111 in Putnam County "Jerry A. Jared Highway."[7]

References

  1. ^ "Grads To Hear George Cate". The Tennessean. June 5, 1966. p. 8B. Retrieved January 31, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "137 Pass Tennessee Bar Exam". The Tennessean. Associated Press. August 10, 1966. p. 24. Retrieved January 31, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Haile, John (August 4, 1978). "Cutrer Spills Dean of Senate Baird". The Tennessean. p. 1. Retrieved January 31, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "DeBerry Wins House Speaker Pro Tempore". The Leaf-Chronicle. Associated Press. November 27, 1988. p. 8A. Retrieved January 31, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Miss Fields, Mr. Jared Are Wed" (PDF). Putnam County Herald. September 15, 1960. Retrieved January 31, 2023.
  6. ^ "Clara Jared". Herald-Citizen. November 7, 2011. Retrieved January 31, 2023 – via NewsBank.
  7. ^ "SB 2762". Tennessee General Assembly. Retrieved January 31, 2023.