Archie D. Sanders

Archie Dovell Sanders ( born June 17, 1857 in Stafford, Genesee County, New York, † July 15, 1941 in Rochester, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1917 and 1933 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Archie Sanders attended the public schools of his home and the Le Roy Academy and the Buffalo Central High School. In 1873 he worked in Stafford in his father's operation, were produced in the agricultural products. Between 1894 and 1895 he was warden road (Highway Commissioner) in Stafford. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. He was a delegate at many regional party conferences of the Republicans. In 1896 and 1924 he also took part in the respective Republican National Conventions, to which William McKinley and Calvin Coolidge was nominated as the presidential candidate. Between 1898 and 1913 led Sanders 28 tax district of the Federal Finance Administration for New York. In 1895 and 1896 he was a member of the New York State Assembly; 1914 to 1915 he was in the state Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1916, Sanders became the 39th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry G. Danforth on March 4, 1917. After seven elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1933 eight legislatures. In this time of the First World War fell. Also, were ratified in 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages as well as the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage. Since 1929 the work of the Congress was shaped by the events of the Great Depression. Between 1929 and 1931 led Sanders postal Committee ( Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads ). In 1932 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Archie Sanders returned to Stafford. At the time of his death on 15 July 1941 he was chairman of the Republican district in Genesee County.