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Sanders was known for acting as a proxy agent between Democratic president [[Franklin Pierce]] and Italian radicalist leader [[Giuseppe Mazzini]], facilitating deep-seated political schemes between the interests of the white supremacist Democrats in the U.S. and European revolutionary efforts to overthrow governments.
Sanders was known for acting as a proxy agent between Democratic president [[Franklin Pierce]] and Italian radicalist leader [[Giuseppe Mazzini]], facilitating deep-seated political schemes between the interests of the white supremacist Democrats in the U.S. and European revolutionary efforts to overthrow governments.
==Early life==
Sanders was born in [[Lexington, Kentucky]], on February 22, 1812, the son of Lewis Sanders and the former Ann Nicholas, being second-oldest out of five children. His father worked as a [[horse]] breeder.<ref name=mayers,pp.65-66a>Mayers, Adam (). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dixie_the_Dominion/unP3OFmYZ24C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=george+sanders+confederacy&printsec=frontcover Dixie & the Dominion], pp. 65–66a. ''Google Books''. Retrieved September 28, 2023.</ref>
==Political career==
==Political career==
Sanders "spent most of his life on the political fringes as a fixer, lobbyist, go-between, and financial promoter."<ref name=mayers,pp.65-66a/> In the 1840s, he worked as a Democratic operative in strong support of the annexation of Texas amidst the [[Mexican-American War]], and also as a negotiating agent for Hudson's Bay Company concerning [[Oregon]] territory, and faced accusations of cheating "a vast sum of money" out of the company.<ref name=mayers,pp.65-66a/>
===Young America movement===
===Young America movement===
The wing of the national Democratic Party Sanders represented was an insurgent branch of progressive Jacksonianism denouncing the "old fogey" faction<ref name=papers>Bickel, Richard; Krowl, Michelle. [http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2012/ms012053.pdf George Nicholas Sanders Family Papers]. ''Library of Congress''. Retrieved September 28, 2023.</ref> led by the aging [[Lewis Cass]]. Historian Merle Curti described the movement as "a crusade for European republicanism would divert attention from sectional controversies, open European markets to American surplus, and fulfill the American mission of furthering the cause of democracy and freedom throughout the world."<ref name=papers/>
The wing of the national Democratic Party Sanders represented was an insurgent branch of progressive Jacksonianism denouncing the "old fogey" faction<ref name=papers>Bickel, Richard; Krowl, Michelle. [http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2012/ms012053.pdf George Nicholas Sanders Family Papers]. ''Library of Congress''. Retrieved September 28, 2023.</ref> led by the aging [[Lewis Cass]]. Historian Merle Curti described the movement as "a crusade for European republicanism would divert attention from sectional controversies, open European markets to American surplus, and fulfill the American mission of furthering the cause of democracy and freedom throughout the world."<ref name=papers/>