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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Nicholas J. Sandlin
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office=Member of the Webster Parish ([[Louisiana]]) Police Jury for Ward 3
| term_start=1877
| term_end=1888
| preceded=William Thomas Sandlin
| succeeded=Isiah Ratcliff
| office2=Louisiana State Representative for Webster Parish
| term_start2=1892
| term_end2=1893
| preceded2=George Lovic Pierce {G. L. P." Wren
| succeeded2=J. T. Hill
| birth_date=August 3, 1832
| death_date=December 17, 1896 (aged 64)
| birth_place=[[North Carolina]], USA
| death_place=Webster Parish, Louisiana
| resting_place=Minden Cemetery
| occupation=[[Farmer]], [[Attorney]], [[Publishing|Publisher]]
| spouse= Irene McIntyre Sandlin (married 1869-1896, his death)
| children=McIntyre Henry Sandlin<br>
John Nicholas Sandlin
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| parents=Henry and Ann Civil Leary Sandlin
| relations=[[A. M. Leary]] (cousin once removed and nephew by marriage)
|branch=[[Confederate States of America|Confederate Army]]<br>
Prisoner of War, 1863-1865
|battles=[[American Civil War]]
|rank=First lieutenant]]}}
'''Nicholas J. Sandlin''' (August 3, 1832 – December 17, 1896) was a veteran of the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate Army]], a, [[attorney]], a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]], a [[Publishing|publisher]], and a [[farmer]] from [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] in Webster Parish in northwestern [[Louisiana]]. His sons, McIntyre Henry "Mack"" Sandlin (1870-1955) and John Nicholas Sandlin (1872-1957), followed him into politics.
==Biography==
Though born in [[North Carolina]], Sandlin was reared on the Sunnyside Plantation near Dubberly in south Webster Parish owned by his uncle, Calvin Leary (1811-1882),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=70720163|title=Calvin Leary|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> who had taken in Sandlin's parents, Henry Sandlin and the former Ann Civil Leary. He lived among cousins who regarded him as a brother.<ref name=echoespast/>
In the [[American Civil War]], Sandlin advanced from a private with the "Minden Blues" [[infantry]] regiment at Camp Moore in Tangipahoa Parish to first lieutenant in the Army of Northern Virginia under [[General]]s [[Robert E. Lee]] and [[Stonewall Jackson]]. He was wounded in 1863 and held as a [[prisoner of war]] until he was paroled at [[Appomattox Court House, Virginia|Appomattox Court House]], [[Virginia]], on April 10, 1865.<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Sandlin&GSfn=Nicholas&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=15412383&df=all&|title=Nicholas J. Sandlin|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref><ref>Find a grave has Sandlin's year of death as 1890, rather than the correct year, 1896.</ref> Upon his discharge, he walked his way back to Webster Parish.<ref name=echoespast/>
Sandlin, who had been admitted after self-study to the practice of law, was involved in the overthrow of the [[Carpetbagger]] government with the election in 1876 of Francis Tillou Nicholls as the Redeemer [[governor]] over the [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Stephen B. Packard]]. Sandlin was appointedas district attorney of territory in North Louisiana stretching from the Red to the Ouachita rivers at the time that Webster Parish was created in 1871 from neighboring Claiborne Parish<ref name=usgw/> He published for a time the newspaper ''The Minden Advertiser,'', one of several weeklies in circulation long before the ''[[Minden Press-Herald]]'' became the daily newspaper for the region. He established a model farm at the McIntyre Community west of Minden and was active in the Farmers' Alliance as a traveling speaker on farm issues.<ref name=echoespast/>
Sandlin represented Ward 3 on the Webster Parish Police Jury, the parish governing body, from 1877 to 1888.<ref>''Respect for the Past; Confidence in the Future: Webster Parish Centennial, 1871-1971'', Webster Parish Police Jury, 1971, pp. 12-13.</ref> He represented Webster Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1892 to 1893<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024 (Webster Parish) |publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> and worked with state Senator George Lovick Pierce "G. L. P." Wren (1836-1901), his former colleague in the Minden Blues and his House predecessor as well, to abolish the Louisiana State Lottery Company. He stepped down after a year to accept appointment from [[U.S. President]] [[Grover Cleveland]] as the postmaster at Minden.<ref name=echoespast/>
In 1869, Sandlin wed the former Irene McIntyre (1840-1922), a Louisiana native and the daughter of Dr. Alexander McIntyre, one of the first [[physician]]s in Minden. Her brother, John D. McIntyre also fought in the Civil War with the Minden Blues. Sandlin and his cousin, William Penn Leary, Sr. (1847-1930), married Flavia R. McIntryre (1846-1934), sister of Irene Sandlin.<ref name=echoespast/> [[A. M. Leary|Alexander McIntyre Leary]], the son of W. P. and Flavia Leary, was the [[mayor]] of Minden from 1903 to 1905 and a [[business]]man in Minden and later [[Shreveport]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49852211|title=William Penn Leary, Sr.|publisher=The Southern Publishing Company|location=[[Chicago]] and [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]]|title="W. Penn Leary of Webster Parish, Louisiana": ''Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana|date=1890|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=72418281|title=Death Takes Former HOLC Manager Here – A. McIntyre Leary, Sr., Dies Sunday; Rites Set for Today|publisher=''The Shreveport Times'' through Findagrave.com|date=September 20, 1937|pages=1, 2|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref>
The older son of Nicholas and Irene Sandlin, McIntyre Sandlin, was mayor of Minden from 1894 to 1896, a decade before his cousin A. M. Leary held the office. McIntrye Sandlin was also a member of the Louisiana House from 1896 to 1900, and the assessor of Webster Parish from 1908 until 1937. Younger son John Sandlin was like his father a district attorney but also a state court judge and a member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] for Louisiana's 4th congressional district from 1921 to 1937, having unseated [[John T. Watkins]], also of Minden. John Sandlin was a political ally of [[U.S. President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[House Speaker]] [[John Nance Garner]].<ref name=echoespast>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1_IeAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37&dq=Alexander+McIntyre+Leary+of+LA&source=bl&ots=wZXvGbbJ3h&sig=HkDtDwITu6-G4CdNhCCA9Wr_3l0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=C6kDVZ6IK8WwggTwkYDwBw&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=Alexander%20McIntyre%20Leary%20of%20LA&f=false|title=Echoes of Our Past: The Civil War Years in Minden|author=John A. Agan|date=2010|pages=37–39|isbn=978-0-557-56490-3|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> Mayors McIntyre Sandlin and A. M. Leary were hence maternal first cousins and paternal second cousins.
When Sandlin died, his younger son, John, had just been admitted to the bar.<ref name=echoespast/> Sandlin is interred with other family members in the original section of the historic Minden Cemetery.<ref name=findagrave/> The former Nicholas J. Sandlin Camp near Minden was named in his honor by the organization, Sons of Confederate Veterans.<ref name=usgw>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/caddo/bios/sandlinj.txt|title=John N. Sandlin, member of Congress|publisher=usgwarchives.net|accessdate=November 15, 2013}}</ref>/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sandlin, Nicholas J.}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:North Carolina]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Farmers]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Publishers]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
[[Category:American Civil War]]
| name=Nicholas J. Sandlin
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office=Member of the Webster Parish ([[Louisiana]]) Police Jury for Ward 3
| term_start=1877
| term_end=1888
| preceded=William Thomas Sandlin
| succeeded=Isiah Ratcliff
| office2=Louisiana State Representative for Webster Parish
| term_start2=1892
| term_end2=1893
| preceded2=George Lovic Pierce {G. L. P." Wren
| succeeded2=J. T. Hill
| birth_date=August 3, 1832
| death_date=December 17, 1896 (aged 64)
| birth_place=[[North Carolina]], USA
| death_place=Webster Parish, Louisiana
| resting_place=Minden Cemetery
| occupation=[[Farmer]], [[Attorney]], [[Publishing|Publisher]]
| spouse= Irene McIntyre Sandlin (married 1869-1896, his death)
| children=McIntyre Henry Sandlin<br>
John Nicholas Sandlin
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| parents=Henry and Ann Civil Leary Sandlin
| relations=[[A. M. Leary]] (cousin once removed and nephew by marriage)
|branch=[[Confederate States of America|Confederate Army]]<br>
Prisoner of War, 1863-1865
|battles=[[American Civil War]]
|rank=First lieutenant]]}}
'''Nicholas J. Sandlin''' (August 3, 1832 – December 17, 1896) was a veteran of the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate Army]], a, [[attorney]], a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]], a [[Publishing|publisher]], and a [[farmer]] from [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] in Webster Parish in northwestern [[Louisiana]]. His sons, McIntyre Henry "Mack"" Sandlin (1870-1955) and John Nicholas Sandlin (1872-1957), followed him into politics.
==Biography==
Though born in [[North Carolina]], Sandlin was reared on the Sunnyside Plantation near Dubberly in south Webster Parish owned by his uncle, Calvin Leary (1811-1882),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=70720163|title=Calvin Leary|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> who had taken in Sandlin's parents, Henry Sandlin and the former Ann Civil Leary. He lived among cousins who regarded him as a brother.<ref name=echoespast/>
In the [[American Civil War]], Sandlin advanced from a private with the "Minden Blues" [[infantry]] regiment at Camp Moore in Tangipahoa Parish to first lieutenant in the Army of Northern Virginia under [[General]]s [[Robert E. Lee]] and [[Stonewall Jackson]]. He was wounded in 1863 and held as a [[prisoner of war]] until he was paroled at [[Appomattox Court House, Virginia|Appomattox Court House]], [[Virginia]], on April 10, 1865.<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Sandlin&GSfn=Nicholas&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=15412383&df=all&|title=Nicholas J. Sandlin|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref><ref>Find a grave has Sandlin's year of death as 1890, rather than the correct year, 1896.</ref> Upon his discharge, he walked his way back to Webster Parish.<ref name=echoespast/>
Sandlin, who had been admitted after self-study to the practice of law, was involved in the overthrow of the [[Carpetbagger]] government with the election in 1876 of Francis Tillou Nicholls as the Redeemer [[governor]] over the [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Stephen B. Packard]]. Sandlin was appointedas district attorney of territory in North Louisiana stretching from the Red to the Ouachita rivers at the time that Webster Parish was created in 1871 from neighboring Claiborne Parish<ref name=usgw/> He published for a time the newspaper ''The Minden Advertiser,'', one of several weeklies in circulation long before the ''[[Minden Press-Herald]]'' became the daily newspaper for the region. He established a model farm at the McIntyre Community west of Minden and was active in the Farmers' Alliance as a traveling speaker on farm issues.<ref name=echoespast/>
Sandlin represented Ward 3 on the Webster Parish Police Jury, the parish governing body, from 1877 to 1888.<ref>''Respect for the Past; Confidence in the Future: Webster Parish Centennial, 1871-1971'', Webster Parish Police Jury, 1971, pp. 12-13.</ref> He represented Webster Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1892 to 1893<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024 (Webster Parish) |publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> and worked with state Senator George Lovick Pierce "G. L. P." Wren (1836-1901), his former colleague in the Minden Blues and his House predecessor as well, to abolish the Louisiana State Lottery Company. He stepped down after a year to accept appointment from [[U.S. President]] [[Grover Cleveland]] as the postmaster at Minden.<ref name=echoespast/>
In 1869, Sandlin wed the former Irene McIntyre (1840-1922), a Louisiana native and the daughter of Dr. Alexander McIntyre, one of the first [[physician]]s in Minden. Her brother, John D. McIntyre also fought in the Civil War with the Minden Blues. Sandlin and his cousin, William Penn Leary, Sr. (1847-1930), married Flavia R. McIntryre (1846-1934), sister of Irene Sandlin.<ref name=echoespast/> [[A. M. Leary|Alexander McIntyre Leary]], the son of W. P. and Flavia Leary, was the [[mayor]] of Minden from 1903 to 1905 and a [[business]]man in Minden and later [[Shreveport]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49852211|title=William Penn Leary, Sr.|publisher=The Southern Publishing Company|location=[[Chicago]] and [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]]|title="W. Penn Leary of Webster Parish, Louisiana": ''Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana|date=1890|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=72418281|title=Death Takes Former HOLC Manager Here – A. McIntyre Leary, Sr., Dies Sunday; Rites Set for Today|publisher=''The Shreveport Times'' through Findagrave.com|date=September 20, 1937|pages=1, 2|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref>
The older son of Nicholas and Irene Sandlin, McIntyre Sandlin, was mayor of Minden from 1894 to 1896, a decade before his cousin A. M. Leary held the office. McIntrye Sandlin was also a member of the Louisiana House from 1896 to 1900, and the assessor of Webster Parish from 1908 until 1937. Younger son John Sandlin was like his father a district attorney but also a state court judge and a member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] for Louisiana's 4th congressional district from 1921 to 1937, having unseated [[John T. Watkins]], also of Minden. John Sandlin was a political ally of [[U.S. President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[House Speaker]] [[John Nance Garner]].<ref name=echoespast>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1_IeAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37&dq=Alexander+McIntyre+Leary+of+LA&source=bl&ots=wZXvGbbJ3h&sig=HkDtDwITu6-G4CdNhCCA9Wr_3l0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=C6kDVZ6IK8WwggTwkYDwBw&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=Alexander%20McIntyre%20Leary%20of%20LA&f=false|title=Echoes of Our Past: The Civil War Years in Minden|author=John A. Agan|date=2010|pages=37–39|isbn=978-0-557-56490-3|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}</ref> Mayors McIntyre Sandlin and A. M. Leary were hence maternal first cousins and paternal second cousins.
When Sandlin died, his younger son, John, had just been admitted to the bar.<ref name=echoespast/> Sandlin is interred with other family members in the original section of the historic Minden Cemetery.<ref name=findagrave/> The former Nicholas J. Sandlin Camp near Minden was named in his honor by the organization, Sons of Confederate Veterans.<ref name=usgw>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/caddo/bios/sandlinj.txt|title=John N. Sandlin, member of Congress|publisher=usgwarchives.net|accessdate=November 15, 2013}}</ref>/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sandlin, Nicholas J.}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:North Carolina]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Farmers]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Publishers]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
[[Category:American Civil War]]