James Everett Sanders (March 8, 1882 – May 12, 1950) was an American

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. He was Presidential secretary to

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Calvin Coolidge and chairman of the

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. He served four terms in the U.S House of Representatives from 1917 to 1925, representing

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Biography

Born in

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, Sanders attended the Indiana State Normal School, now

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, and then graduated from

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. He practiced law in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Political career

From 1917 until 1925 Sanders represented Indiana in the

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. He declined to be re-nominated in 1924, and instead became director of the Speakers' Bureau of the Republican National Committee. Subsequently, in 1925, he accepted the job and replaced C. Bascom Slemp as the personal secretary to President Coolidge early in his second term. During his time as presidential secretary (a position equivalent to the current White House Chief of Staff) Sanders amassed a collection of presidential speeches that became known as the 'Everett Sanders Papers', which contain speeches from June 22, 1925 until February 22, 1929. Sanders also became a member of the

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after 1926. Sanders was so highly regarded that, after leaving the position in 1929 after Coolidge's second term, President

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appointed him to chair the Republican National Committee, a position he held from 1932 until he stepped down in 1934 after Hoover's disastrous re-election campaign.

Death

Sanders died in

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, in 1950, and is buried in Indiana, in the Highland Lawn Cemetery in

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References

* Th
Everett Sanders Papers
retrieved on March 25, 2007.

External links

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