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U.S. senator and ambassador Jim Sasser, BA’58, JD’61, dies at 87

James R. Sasser, BA’58, JD’61, a former three-term U.S. senator from Tennessee and ambassador to China, died Sept. 10 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was a statesman who loved Tennessee and the U.S. Senate and believed in public service; he was 87.  Sasser studied law and history at Vanderbilt, and, after graduating, he served […]