| LC control no. | no 95026909 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Webb, Sawney, 1842-1926 |
| Variant(s) | Webb, William Robert, 1842-1926 Old Sawney, 1842-1926 Webb, W. R. (William Robert), 1842-1926 Webb, Old Sawney, 1842-1926 |
| See also | Descendants: Webb (Family : Person County, N.C.) |
| Birth date | 1842-11-11 |
| Death date | 1926-12-19 |
| Place of birth | Person County (N.C.) |
| Place of death | Bell Buckle (Tenn.) |
| Affiliation | University of North Carolina (1793-1962) Webb School (Bell Buckle, Tenn.) United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Teachers |
| Found in | The Schoolmaker, 1971: t.p. (Sawney Webb) p. 12, etc. (b. 1842; christened William Robert Webb; best known as Sawney Webb; also called: Old Sawney, Old Sawney Webb, W. R. Webb; teacher, founder of Webb School, Bell Buckle, TN; U.S. Senator from Tennessee) OCLC, 5/24/95 (hdg.: Webb, William Robert, 1842-1926; usage: Sawney Webb, William Robert Webb) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed November 24, 2015 (Webb, 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. Finding aid for Webb family papers, 1765-1960, via UNC University Libraries WWW site, 30 September 2020 (William Robert "Sawney" Webb (1842-1926), Confederate soldier, teacher, founder of the Webb School at Bell Buckle, Tenn., and U.S. senator from Tennessee) <https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/01900/> |
| Associated language | eng |
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