Nathan L. Bachman

Nathan Lynn Bachman ( born August 8, 1878 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, † April 23, 1937 in Washington DC ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party.

A native of the eastern part of Tennessee Bachman attended several colleges, including the Southwestern Presbyterian University in Clarksville, the Central University in Richmond (Kentucky ), and the Washington and Lee University in Lexington. Later he returned to Tennessee to the Law School of the University of Chattanooga, before he finally graduated in 1903 from the University of Virginia. In the same year he began to work as a lawyer in Chattanooga.

From 1906 to 1908, Bachman City Prosecutor Chattanooga; 1912 to 1918 he held the office of a judge at the district court in Hamilton County. In 1918 he became an Associate Justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court, which he remained until 1924, when he applied for a seat in the U.S. Senate. After his defeat in the election, he was working as a lawyer again.

On February 28, 1933 Nathan Bachman then moved but still in the Senate. He was appointed by Governor Harry Hill McAlister to terminate the term of office of appointed as the new U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. In November 1934 he was confirmed in a by-election; Finally, in 1936 he received the vote for its own full term of office. This, however, had hardly begun when he died in April 1937.

In honor of Nathan Bachman was a tunnel on the U.S. Highway 41, which connects his hometown of Chattanooga with the neighboring city of East Ridge, as Bachman Tubes named.