About Jim Sasser
James Ralph Sasser was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served three terms as a member of the United States Senate from 1977 to 1995, and was Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on the Budget. From 1996 to 1999, during the Clinton administration, he was the United States Ambassador to China. To date, he is the most recent Democratic U.S. senator from Tennessee. In 1993 he engineered passage of President Bill Clinton's first budget, which reduced the deficit by $500 billion over 10 years but passed without any Republican votes. A lawyer by trade, Sasser sought election in his own right and won his party's 1976 nomination for the United States Senate. Upon winning his party's Senate nomination, Sasser set out to attack the record of one-term incumbent Sen. Sasser won handily over Brock, and went on to serve three terms in the Senate.
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