Everett Sanders: Difference between revisions

Born in [[Coalmont, Indiana]], Sanders attended the [[Indiana_State_UniversityIndiana State University#History|Indiana State Normal School]], now [[Indiana State University]], and then graduated from [[Indiana University]]. He practiced law in [[Terre Haute, Indiana]]. 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|title=A Sanders for a Slemp.|date=1925-01-26|work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|accessdate=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]]|accessdate=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 [[United States presidential election, 1932|disastrous re-election campaign]].<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,754078,00.html|title=Sanders Steps down.|date=1934-05-14|work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|accessdate=2009-05-09}}</ref>