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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Andrew Leonard Sevier, Sr.
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Senator<br>for the 32nd district 
|term_start=1932
|term_end=March 26, 1962
|preceded=Norris C. Williamson
Clifford Cleveland Brooks 
|succeeded=Irene Newman Jordan Sevier
|birth_date=November 9, 1894
|birth_place=Madison Parish, Louisiana
|death_place=Tallulah, Madison Parish
|death_date=March 26, 1962 (aged 67)
|resting_place=Silver Cross Cemetery in Tallulah
|residence=Tallulah, Louisiana
|spouse=Irene Newman Jordan Sevier (married 1918-1962, his death) 
|children=Andrew L. Sevier, Jr.
Howard Spencer Sevier<br>
Warren Jordan Sevier
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|religion=[[Presbyterian]]
|occupation=Attorney 
|alma_mater=[[Louisiana State University]]
LSU Law Center
|footnotes=
}}

'''Andrew Leonard Sevier, Sr.''' (November 9, 1894 &ndash; March 26, 1962), was an [[attorney]] from Tallulah, [[Louisiana]], who served for thirty years from 1932 until his death as a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state Senator. He represented the 32nd District, which then included Madison, East Carrol, Tensas, and Concordia parishes.<ref name=senate>{{cite web|url=http://www.senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/Documents/SenateMembership1880ForwardRevisedMar2011.pdf|title=Members of the Louisiana State Senate from 1880 to Present|publisher=Legis.state.la.us |accessdate=August 19, 2019 }}</ref> 

He was the scion of a prominent Madison Parish family that traces its descent from John Sevier, a fighter in the [[American Revolution]], pioneer and former [[governor]] of [[Tennessee]], and the namesake of Sevierville in Sevier County near [[Knoxville]].<ref name=sevier>{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lamadiso/articles/sevierfamily/sevierfamily.htm|title=Sevier Family of Madison Parish, Louisiana|publisher=rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=February 15, 2011}}</ref>