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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeNewell SANDERS
(1850-1939)
Senate Years of Service:
1912-1913Party: RepublicanSANDERS, Newell, a Senator
from Tennessee; born on a farm near Bloomington, Owen County, Ind.,
July 12, 1850; attended the rural schools; graduated from Indiana
University at Bloomington in 1873; owned and operated a book store
in Bloomington, Ind., 1873-1877; moved to Chattanooga, Tenn., in
1877 and became a manufacturer of agricultural implements; member
of the school board 1881-1882; alderman 1882-1886; president of the
Chattanooga Plow Co. 1882-1901; member of the board of directors of
the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway; appointed as a
Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Robert L. Taylor and served from April 11, 1912, to
January 24, 1913, when a successor was elected; was not a candidate
for election; chairman, Committee on National Banks (Sixty-second
Congress); continued his former manufacturing pursuits in
Chattanooga until 1927, when he retired from active pursuits; died
at his home on Lookout Mountain, Tenn., January 26, 1939; interment
in Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Bibliography
McKellar, Kenneth. “Newell Sanders,” in Tennessee
Senators as Seen by One of Their Successors. Kingsport, Tenn.:
Southern Publishers, Inc., 1942, 531-547; Terral, Rufus. Newell
Sanders: A Biography. Kingsport, Tenn.: Kingsport Press,
1935.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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