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{{short description|American politician}}
{{infobox officeholder
|name = Everett Sanders
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|term_end1 = March 4, 1929
|predecessor1 = [[C. Bascom Slemp]]
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|state2 = [[Indiana]]
|district2 = {{ushr|IN|5|5th}}
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|education = [[Indiana State University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University, Bloomington]] ([[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]])
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'''James Everett Sanders''' (March 8, 1882 – May 12, 1950) was an American [[political figure]]. He was [[Secretary to the President (US)|Presidential secretary]] to [[President of the United States|President]] [[Calvin Coolidge]] and chairman of the [[Republican National Committee]]. He served four terms in the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S House of Representatives]] from 1917 to 1925, representing [[Indiana]].
==Biography==
Born in [[Coalmont, Indiana]], Sanders attended the [[Indiana State University#History|Indiana State Normal School]]
=== Political career === From 1917 until 1925 Sanders represented Indiana in the [[United States Congress]]. 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.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,928646,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219123150/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,928646,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 19, 2012|title=A Sanders for a Slemp.|date=1925-01-26|work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=2009-05-09}}</ref> 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',<ref>{{citation|url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/coolbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(amrlm+@syn(ms01+ms02+ms03+ms04+ms05+ms06+ms07+ms08+ms09+ms10+ms11+ms12+ms13+ms14+ms15+ms16+ms17+ms18+ms19+ms20+ms21+ms22+ms23+ms24+ms25+ms26+ms27+ms28+ms29+ms30+ms31+ms32+ms33+ms34+ms35+ms36+ms37+ms38+ms39+ms40+ms41+ms42+ms43+ms44+ms45+ms46+ms47+ms48+ms49+ms50+ms51+ms52+ms53+ms54+ms55+ms56+ms57+ms58+ms59+ms60)))|title=The Everett Sanders Papers.|publisher=[[The Library of Congress]]|access-date=2009-05-09}}</ref> which contain speeches from June 22, 1925, until February 22, 1929. Sanders also became a member of the [[Alfalfa Club]] after 1926. Sanders was so highly regarded that, after leaving the position in 1929 after Coolidge's second term, President [[Herbert Hoover]] appointed him to chair the Republican National Committee, a position he held from 1932 until he stepped down in 1934 after Hoover's [[1932 United States presidential election|disastrous re-election campaign]].<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,754078,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125052314/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,754078,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 25, 2010|title=Sanders Steps down.|date=1934-05-14|work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=2009-05-09}}</ref>
=== Death ===
Sanders died in [[Washington, D.C.]], in 1950, and is buried in Indiana, in the [[Highland Lawn Cemetery]] in [[Terre Haute]].
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==External links==
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[[Category:1950 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century American politicians]]
[[Category:Indiana Republicans]]▼
[[Category:Indiana State University alumni]]
[[Category:Indiana University Maurer School of Law alumni]]
[[Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana]]▼
[[Category:Personal secretaries to the President of the United States]]
[[Category:Politicians from Terre Haute, Indiana]]
[[Category:People from Clay County, Indiana]]
[[Category:Coolidge administration personnel]]
[[Category:Lawyers from Washington, D.C.]]
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