Background
Sanders, Newell was born on July 12, 1850 in Owen Company, Indiana, United States. Son of John and Miriam (Coffey) Sanders.
politician United States senator
Sanders, Newell was born on July 12, 1850 in Owen Company, Indiana, United States. Son of John and Miriam (Coffey) Sanders.
He attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where he was graduated in 1873 and operated a bookstore until 1877.
During that year, he moved to Chattanooga and became involved in the manufacturing of farm implements. He served on the board of education 1881 – 1882 and as an alderman 1882 – 1886. He also served on the board of directors of the Nashville, Chattanooga and Saint Louis Railway.
When Democratic United States. Senator Robert Love Taylor died in office, Tennessee Governor Ben West. Hooper, a Republican, appointed Sanders to the vacancy.
Sanders was sworn in during April, 1912 and served until January, 1913 when the Tennessee General Assembly elected educator William R. Webb, a Democrat, to succeed him, the process called for in the United States Constitution until the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified later in the decade. During his somewhat abbreviated service, Sanders nonetheless served as chair of the Senate Committee on National Banks.
Sanders was the last Republican to serve as United States. Senator from Tennessee until the election of Howard H. Baker, Junior. over five decades later. He was, furthermore, the last Republican United States. Senator from a former Confederate state prior to the election of John Tower of Texas in 1961 (a gap of 48 years).
After his service in the Senate, Sanders returned to his manufacturing interests until his retirement in 1927.
In 1922 he ran for popular election to the United States Senate, and received 32 percent of the vote against Democratic incumbent Kenneth McKellar. Sanders died at his home in Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, and was buried in Chattanooga"s Forest Hills Cemetery.
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Member Republican National Committee, 1912-1916. President National Association Agricultural Implement and Vehicle Manufacturers, 1907-1908.
Married Corinne Dodds (also Bachelor of Science, Indiana State University, 1873), 1873 (died 1929). Children: Wendell (deceased), Norinne (Mistress James Harvey Anderson), Mildred (Mistress Walter Blair Wight), Sherman (deceased), Dot (deceased), Pansy (Mistress Ben Matthews Allison).