Nathan L. Bachman
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United States Senator from Tennessee |
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In office March 4, 1933 – April 23, 1937 |
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| Preceded by | Cordell Hull |
| Succeeded by | George L. Berry |
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August 2, 1878 Chattanooga, Tennessee |
| Died | April 23, 1937 (aged 58) Washington, D.C. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Pearl McDuke |
| Religion | Baptist |
Nathan Lynn Bachman (August 2, 1878 – April 23, 1937) was a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1933 until his death. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Bachman was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He attended several colleges, including the former Southwestern Presbyterian University in Clarksville, Tennessee (the predecessor institution to the current Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee; the campus is the current setting of Austin Peay State University), Central University in Richmond, Kentucky (now merged with Centre College in Danville, Kentucky), and Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He then returned home, attending the former law school of the former University of Chattanooga (now the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) before actually graduating from the law school of the University of Virginia in 1903. He began the practice of law in Chattanooga that same year.
Bachman was Chattanooga city attorney from 1906 to 1908 and circuit court judge from 1912 to 1918. In 1918 he became an Associate Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court, resigining in 1924 to run for the U.S. Senate. His 1924 campaign was unsuccessful and he returned to the practice of law.
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