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Senate Years of Service: 1913-1913 Party: Democrat
WEBB, William Robert, (grandson of Richard Stanford),
a Senator from Tennessee; born near Mount Tirzah, Person County, N.C.,
November 11, 1842; attended private schools and was a student in Bingham School, Oaks, N.C.,
1856-1860; entered the University of North Carolina in 1860 but left to enlist in the Confederate
Army; returned to North Carolina in 1865; graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill in 1868; taught at Horners School, Oxford, N.C., 1868-1870; founded the Webb School, a
preparatory school, at Culleoka, Tenn., in 1870; moved the school to Bell Buckle, Tenn., in 1886;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert L.
Taylor and served from January 24, 1913, to March 3, 1913; was not a candidate for reelection in
1913; continued teaching until his death in Bell Buckle, Tenn., December 19, 1926; interment in
Hazelwood Cemetery.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography;
McMillin, Laurence. The Schoolmaker: Sawney Webb and the Bell Buckle Story.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971; Parks, E.W. Sawney Webb: Tennessees
Schoolmaster." North Carolina Historical Review 12 (July 1935): 233-51.
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