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Senate Years of Service: 1913-1919 Party: Democrat
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SAULSBURY, Willard, Jr., (son of Willard Saulsbury, Sr., nephew of Eli Saulsbury), a Senator
from Delaware; born in Georgetown, Sussex County, Del., April 17, 1861;
attended private schools and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1882 and commenced practice in Wilmington,
Del.; president of the New Castle Bar Association and chairman of the board of
censors; interested in banking and sundry business organizations; member of the
Democratic National Committee 1908-1920; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for
United States Senator in 1899, 1901, 1903, 1905, 1907, and 1911; elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate in 1913 and served from March 4, 1913, to
March 3, 1919; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918; served as
President pro tempore of the Senate during the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth
Congresses; chairman, Committee on Coast and Insular Survey (Sixty-third
through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico
(Sixty-fifth Congress); member of the advisory committee of the Conference on
Limitation of Armaments in Washington, D.C., 1921-1922; member of the Pan
American Conference in Santiago, Chile, in 1923; engaged in the practice of law
in Wilmington, Del., and Washington, D.C., until his death in Wilmington, Del.,
February 20, 1927; interment in Christ Episcopal Churchyard, Dover, Del.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Franseth, Gregory S., L.
Rebecca Johnson Melvin, and Shiela Pardee, The End of an Era in Delaware: The
Practical Politics of Willard Saulsbury, Jr.
Collections 11 (2003): 1-27.
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