Edward James Gay (1878-1952)

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For the member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana, see Edward James Gay (1816-1889).

Edward James Gay (May 5, 1878 - December 1, 1952) was a United States Senator from Louisiana. Born on Union Plantation in Iberville Parish, he attended Pantops Academy (Charlottesville, Virginia) the Lawrenceville School (Lawrenceville, New Jersey), and Princeton University. He engaged in sugar production and the cultivation of various agricultural products and was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1904 to 1918.

Gay was elected on November 5, 1918, as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert F. Broussard and served from November 6, 1918, to March 3, 1921; he declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1920. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Coast and Insular Survey (Sixty-fifth Congress). Gay was president of a manufacturing company and of the Lake Long Drainage District in Iberville Parish; he died in New Orleans in 1952. Interment was in Metairie Cemetery.

Edward James Gay (1816-1889), his grandfather, had been a United States Representative from Louisiana.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Preceded by: Walter Guion

United States Senator (Class 3) from Louisiana November 6, 1918, to March 3, 1921

Succeeded by: Edwin S. Broussard