Sept. 11 (UPI) --Jim Sasser, who represented Tennessee for 18 years as a Democrat in the U.S. Senate and was the ambassador ...

Former U.S. Senator for Tennessee and Memphis native Jim Sasser has died at the age of 87, the Tennessee House Democratic Caucus announced Wednesday. Sasser passed away at his North Carolina home ...

The fact that six Democrats—including majority whip Wendell Ford, past Democratic leader Robert Byrd, future Democratic leader Harry Reid, and aspiring Democratic leader Jim Sasser—voted ...

He worked on the successful 1976 U.S. Senate campaign of the late Jim Sasser and served as his first legislative director in Washington, D.C. After returning to Tennessee in 1978, Lodge headed the ...

The entire Robinson family worked for plantation owner James Sasser, who expected his tenants to spend all of their earnings at his company store. On at least one occasion, Sasser forced the ...

Jim Cooper A quiet dealmaker who often found himself at the center of the action, Jim Sasser was the sort of senator Tennessee sent to Washington for decades. He was not a stentorian orator or ...

Tim Johnson and Jim Sasser; Namibian President Hage Geingob; and former Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss. The year also brought the deaths of several rights activists, including the reverends ...