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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeWilliam Robert WEBB
(1842-1926)
Senate Years of Service:
1913-1913Party: DemocratWEBB, William Robert,
(grandson of Richard Stanford), a Senator from Tennessee; born near
Mount Tirzah, Person County, N.C., November 11, 1842; attended
private schools and was a student in Bingham School, Oaks, N.C.,
1856-1860; entered the University of North Carolina in 1860 but
left to enlist in the Confederate Army; returned to North Carolina
in 1865; graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill in 1868; taught at Horner’s School, Oxford, N.C.,
1868-1870; founded the Webb School, a preparatory school, at
Culleoka, Tenn., in 1870; moved the school to Bell Buckle, Tenn.,
in 1886; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Robert L. Taylor and served from
January 24, 1913, to March 3, 1913; was not a candidate for
reelection in 1913; continued teaching until his death in Bell
Buckle, Tenn., December 19, 1926; interment in Hazelwood
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; McMillin, Laurence. The
Schoolmaker: Sawney Webb and the Bell Buckle Story. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971; Parks, E.W.
“Sawney Webb: Tennessee’s Schoolmaster.” North
Carolina Historical Review 12 (July 1935): 233-51.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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