Sanders, Newell, 1850-1939

LC control no.	n 2003086915
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Sanders, Newell, 1850-1939 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1850-07-12
Death date	1939-01-26
Place of birth	Bloomington (Ind.)
Place of death	Lookout Mountain (Tenn.)
Affiliation	Indiana University Chattanooga Plow Company United States. Congress. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Profession or occupation	Legislators Industrialists
Found in	NUCMC data from Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library for Newell Sanders papers, 1896-1939 (Newell Sanders, 1850-1939; businessman of Chattanooga, Tenn.; served as Tenn. senator, 1911-1912; Republican; born in Indiana) LC data base, July 16, 2003 (old cat. hdg.: Sanders, Newell) Biographical directory of the United States Congress, January 28, 2016 (Sanders, 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.)
Associated language	eng