He became ambassador after three terms as a senator from Tennessee. In 1999, he was made a virtual prisoner in the embassy in Beijing during a siege by protesters. By Robert D. McFadden James Sasser, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

James Sasser, a three-term Democratic senator from Tennessee who as President Bill Clinton’s ambassador to Beijing helped reset relations until outrage over Chinese deaths from a NATO attack in Serbia ...

Jim Sasser's papers go to Vanderbilt: James R. Sasser, a former three-term U.S. senator from Tennessee and ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, and his wife, Mary Sasser, have donated their ...