Morgan G. Sanders

Morgan Gurley Sanders ( * July 14, 1878 in Ben Wheeler, Van Zandt County, Texas; † 7 January 1956 in Corsicana, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1939 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Morgan Sanders attended the public schools of his home and then the Alamo Institute. He then worked for three years as a teacher. At the same time he was the owner and editor of a weekly newspaper. After studying law at the University of Texas at Austin and its made ​​in 1901 admitted to the bar he began to work in Canton in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1902 and 1906 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Texas. From 1910 to 1914 he served as a prosecutor in Van Zandt County. After that he was in the years 1915 and 1916 the public prosecutor in the seventh judicial district of Texas. He then practiced again as a private lawyer. Sanders was also a delegate to numerous regional party conferences of the Democrats in Texas.

In the congressional elections of 1920 he was in the third electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Young on March 4, 1921. After eight re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1939 nine legislative sessions. Since 1933, most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1938, Sanders was not nominated by his party for re-election.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked again as a lawyer. He died on 7 January 1956 in Corsicana and was buried in Canton.