James Sasser, senator and envoy to China amid tense era, dies at 87 The former senator from Tennessee was trapped in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for days during 1999 protests over NATO attacks ...

Jim Sasser, a former U.S. senator from Tennessee and U.S. ambassador to China, died at 87 in his Chapel Hill, North Carolina, home on Tuesday, according to his family.

Jim Sasser, the last Democrat to represent Tennessee in the U.S. Senate, who later went on to serve as U.S. Ambassador to China during the Clinton administration, died on Tuesday. He was 87 ...

Jim Sasser, a former U.S. senator and ambassador, has died, his family confirmed to News 2. He was 87.

Tennessee Statesman Jim Sasser Dies at 87 Vanderbilt graduate and ex-military man served nation as U.S. senator, ambassador to China ...

Jim Sasser, who served 18 years in the U.S. Senate and six years as ambassador to China, has died ...

‘Tennessee lost a fierce champion today’: Former US Senator, Ambassador Jim Sasser dies at 87 President Bill Clinton appointed Sasser as the U.S. Ambassador to China in 1996.

James Sasser, a three-term Democratic senator from Tennessee who, with no background in diplomacy or Chinese affairs, thrived as President Bill Clinton's ambassador to China in the late 1990s ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jim Sasser, who served 18 years in the U.S. Senate and six years as ambassador to China, has died. He was 87. Gray Sasser, his son, said his father died Tuesday evening ...