Everett Sanders

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Everett Sanders (1925)

James Everett Sanders (born March 8, 1882 in Coalmont , Clay County , Indiana , †  May 12, 1950 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1917 and 1925 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Everett Sanders attended the public schools of his home country and then the Indiana State Normal School in Terre Haute . After a subsequent law degree at Indiana University in Bloomington and his admission as a lawyer in 1907, he began to work in Terre Haute in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party .

In the 1916 congressional election he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the fifth constituency of Indiana, where he succeeded Democrat Ralph W. Moss on March 4, 1917 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1925 . During this time the First World War fell . In 1919 and 1920, the 18th and 19th amendments to the constitution were passed. In 1924, Sanders decided not to run again.

In 1925 he served as Director of the Speakers' Bureau on the Republican National Committee . Between 1925 and 1929 he was the private secretary to President Calvin Coolidge ; From 1932 to 1934 he was finally the organizing committee of his party as chairman . He then practiced as a lawyer in the federal capital Washington. He died there on May 12, 1950. He was buried in Terre Haute.

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