John N. Sandlin
| John Nicholas Sandlin, Sr. | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 4th district |
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In office March 4, 1921 – January 3, 1937 |
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| Preceded by | John T. Watkins |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Overton Brooks |
| Judge of Louisiana's 2nd Judicial District Court | |
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In office March 4, 1911 – December 4, 1920 |
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| Preceded by | Richard Cleveland Drew |
| Succeeded by | Robert Roberts, Jr. |
| District Attorney of Louisiana's 2nd Judicial District | |
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In office December 8, 1904 – March 4, 1911 |
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| Preceded by | Charles E. McDonald |
| Succeeded by | Thomas W. Robertson |
| Personal details | |
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February 24, 1872 |
| Died | December 25, 1957 (aged 85) |
| Resting place | Minden Cemetery |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Relations | Brother McIntyre H. Sandlin |
| Alma mater | Minden Normal School and Business College |
| Religion | Methodist |
February 24, 1872
McIntyre Community
John Nicholas Sandlin, Sr. (February 24, 1872 – December 25, 1957), of Minden, Louisiana, represented his state's Fourth Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from 1921 to 1937.
In 1936, rather than seeking a ninth term in the House, Sandlin, upon the request of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, contested an open seat in the U.S. Senate. He lost the pivotal Democratic nomination to Allen J. Ellender of Houma in Terrebonne Parish in South Louisiana. A confidant of the late Huey Pierce Long, Jr., Ellender received 364,931 ballots (68 percent) to Sandlin's 167,471 votes (31.2 percent). There was no Republican candidate, and Ellender was sworn into the first of what would become six consecutive senatorial terms.
Sandlin was born in the McIntyre community west of Minden, the younger of two sons to Nicholas J. Sandlin (died 1890), originally from North Carolina, and the former Irene McIntyre (1840-1922), a Louisiana native. Nicholas Sandlin served in the Army of Northern Virginia under Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson and was severely wounded in the American Civil War. In Louisiana, Nicholas Sandlin was active in the overthrow of the Carpetbagger government. He was district attorney of a tract of land stretching from the Red to the Ouachita rivers. Years later, he represented Webster Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives. In 1893, U.S. President Grover Cleveland named him postmaster at Minden. The former Nicholas J. Sandlin Camp near Minden was named in his honor by the organization, Sons of Confederate Veterans."
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