Jared Maddux

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Mary Virginia Lane
(m. 1935)
Jared Maddux
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43rd and 46th
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee
Speaker of the Tennessee Senate
In office
January 4, 1965 January 3, 1967
Military service
AllegianceFlag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States
Branch/service United States Navy
Battles/wars World War II

John Jared Maddux (July 20, 1911 – May 22, 1971) [1] was a Tennessee politician.

Career

A member of the Tennessee State Senate, he was elected by his colleagues to serve as the 43rd Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee from 1953 to 1959 and again from 1965 to 1967 under Governor Frank G. Clement, longer than any other person except John S. Wilder, who held the office from 1971 to 2007.

The story of how he was elected to his final term is now something of a Tennessee political legend (see Frank Gorrell.) As of 2007, he is the only person to have served in the office for non-consecutive terms. He was from Cookeville, Tennessee.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Robert Lowe
Comptroller of the Treasury of Tennessee
1945
Succeeded by
Sam Carson
Preceded by
Sam Carson
Comptroller of the Treasury of Tennessee
19461949
Succeeded by
Cedric Hunt
Preceded by
Walter M. Haynes
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee
19531959
Succeeded by
William D. Baird
Preceded by Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee
19651967
Succeeded by