Tuhia he haere tonu mō tēnei wāhanga - I te tau 1916, ko Sandlin he karere ki te Democratic National Convention
, i hui ki St. Louis, Missouri, ki te whakaingoa ano i te Perehitini o Amerika a Woodrow Wilson o New Jersey me te Perehitini Tuarua a Thomas R. Marshall o Indiana, mo o raatau wa tuarua i te tari. I te tau 1944, he kaitono perehitini ia mo te wa tuawha o Franklin Roosevelt.