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Colonel Sanders
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Colonel Harland David Sanders[a] (September 9,

1890 December 16, 1980) was an American
businessman, best known for founding Kentucky
Fried Chicken (KFC), and later acting as the
company's goodwill ambassador and symbol.

Colonel Sanders

Sanders held a number of jobs in his early life, such as

a fireman, insurance salesman and running filling
stations. He began selling fried chicken from his
roadside restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky, during the
Great Depression. Sanders identified the potential of
the restaurant franchising concept, and the first KFC
franchise opened in Utah in 1952. The company's
rapid expansion across the United States and overseas
saw it overwhelm him however, and in 1964 he sold
the company to a group of investors led by John Y.
Brown, Jr. and Jack C. Massey for $2 million.

Sanders in October 1972

Born

Harland David Sanders

September 9, 1890
Henryville, Indiana, U.S.

Died

December 16, 1980 (aged 90)

Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.

Cause of
death

Complications from pneumonia

and leukemia

4 Public image

Nationality

American

5 Death

Education

La Salle Extension University

6 Legacy

Occupation

Businessman

7 Footnotes

Board
member of

Kentucky Fried Chicken (founder)

Religion

Disciples of Christ

Spouse(s)

Josephine King (divorced)

Claudia Price

Children

Harland David Sanders, Jr.

Margaret Sanders
Mildred Sanders Ruggles

Parents

Wilbur David Sanders

Margaret Ann Sanders (ne

Contents
1 Early life and education
2 Early career
3 Later career

8 Further reading
9 See also
10 External links

Early life and education

Sanders was born on September 9, 1890 in a fourroom house located 3 miles (5 km) east of Henryville,
Indiana.[2] He was the oldest of three children born to
Wilbur David and Margaret Ann (ne Dunlevy)
Sanders.[2] The family attended the Advent Christian
Church.[3] The family were of mostly Irish and
English ancestry.
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His father was a mild and affectionate man who worked his 80 acre farm, until he broke his leg after a
fall.[2] He then worked as a butcher in Henryville for two years.[2] One summer afternoon in 1895, he
came home with a fever and died later that day.[2] Sanders' mother obtained work in a tomato cannery;
and the young Harland was required to look after and cook for his siblings.[2] When he was 10 he began
to work as a farmhand for local farmers Charlie Norris and Henry Monk.
Sanders' mother remarried in 1902, and the family moved to Greenwood, Indiana.[4] Sanders had a
tumultuous relationship with his stepfather, and in 1903 he dropped out of school, and went to live and
work on a nearby farm.[4] He then took a job painting horse carriages in Indianapolis.[4] When he was 14
he moved to southern Indiana to work as a farmhand for Sam Wilson for two years.[4] In 1906, with his
mother's approval, he left the area to live with his uncle in New Albany, Indiana.[5] His uncle worked for
the streetcar company, and secured Sanders a job as a conductor.[6]

Early career
Sanders falsified his date of birth and enlisted in the United States Army in November 1906, completing
his service commitment as a teamster in Cuba.[5] He was honorably discharged after three months and in
1907 moved to Sheffield, Alabama, where an uncle lived.[5] There, he met his brother Clarence who had
also moved there in order to escape his stepfather.[5] The uncle worked for the Southern Railroad, and
secured Sanders a job there as a blacksmith's helper in the workshops.[4] After two months, Sanders
moved to Jasper, Alabama where he got a job cleaning out the ash pans of trains from the Northern
Alabama Railroad (a division of the Southern Railroad) when they had finished their run.[4] Sanders
progressed to become a fireman at the age of 16.[4]
In 1909 Sanders found laboring work with the Norfolk and Western Railway.[4] Whilst working on the
railroad, he met Josephine King of Jasper, Alabama, and they were married shortly afterwards. They
would go on to have a son, Harland, Jr., who died in 1932 from infected tonsils, and two daughters,
Margaret Sanders and Mildred Sanders Ruggles.[7][8] He then found work as a fireman on the Illinois
Central Railroad, and he and his family moved to Jackson, Tennessee.[4] By night, Sanders studied law
by correspondence through the La Salle Extension University.[4] Sanders lost his job at Illinois after
brawling with a work colleague.[9] While Sanders moved to work for the Rock Island Railroad,
Josephine and the children went to live with her parents.[4] After a while, Sanders began to practice law
in Little Rock for three years, and he earned enough fees for his family to move with him.[4] His legal
career ended after he got engaged in a courtroom brawl with his own client.[10]
After that, Sanders moved back with his mother in Henryville, and went to work as a laborer on the
Pennsylvania Railroad.[4] In 1916, the family moved to Jeffersonville, where Sanders got a job selling
life insurance for the Prudential Life Insurance Company.[4] Sanders was eventually fired for
insubordination.[11] He moved to Louisville and got a salesman job with Mutual Benefit Life of New
Jersey.[11]
In 1920, Sanders established a ferry boat company, which operated a boat on the Ohio River between
Jeffersonville and Louisville.[4] He canvassed for funding, becoming a minority shareholder himself, and
was appointed secretary of the company.[4] The ferry was an instant success.[12] In around 1922 he took
a job as secretary at the Chamber of Commerce in Columbus, Indiana.[4] He admitted to not being very
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good at the job, and resigned after less than a year.[4] Sanders cashed in his ferry boat company shares
for $22,000 and used the money to establish a company manufacturing acetylene lamps.[4] The venture
failed after Delco introduced an electric lamp that they sold on credit.
Sanders moved to Winchester, Kentucky, to work as a salesman for the Michelin Tire Company.[4] He
lost his job in 1924 when Michelin closed their New Jersey manufacturing plant.[13] In 1924, by chance,
he met the general manager of Standard Oil of Kentucky, who asked him to run a service station in
Nicholasville.[4] In 1930, the station closed as a result of the Great Depression.[14]

Later career
In 1930, the Shell Oil Company offered Sanders a service station
in Corbin, Kentucky rent free, in return for paying them a
percentage of sales.[4] Sanders began to serve chicken dishes and
other meals such as country ham and steaks.[15] Since he did not
have a restaurant, he served the customers in his adjacent living
quarters. He was commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel in 1935
by Kentucky governor Ruby Laffoon. His local popularity grew,
and in 1939 food critic Duncan Hines visited Sanders's restaurant
and included it in Adventures in Good Eating, his guide to
restaurants throughout the US. The entry read:
Corbin, KY. Sanders Court and Caf
41 Jct. with 25, 25 E. Mi. N. of Corbin. Open all year
except Xmas.
A very good place to stop en route to Cumberland Falls
and the Great Smokies. Continuous 24-hour service.
Sizzling steaks, fried chicken, country ham, hot biscuits.
L. 50 to $1; D., 60 to $1

The restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky

where Colonel Sanders developed
Kentucky Fried Chicken

The world's first KFC franchise,

located in South Salt Lake, Utah

In July 1939 Sanders acquired a motel in Asheville, North Carolina.[16] His Corbin restaurant and motel
was destroyed in a fire in November 1939, and Sanders had it rebuilt as a motel with a 140 seat
restaurant.[16] By July 1940, Sanders had finalized his "Secret Recipe" for frying chicken in a pressure
fryer that cooked the chicken faster than pan frying. As the United States entered World War II in
December 1941, gas was rationed, and as the tourists dried up, Sanders was forced to close his Asheville
motel. He went to work as a supervisor in Seattle until the latter part of 1942.[4] He later ran cafeterias
for the government at an Ordinance Works in Tennessee, followed by a job as an assistant manager at a
cafeteria in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.[4]
He left his mistress, Claudia Ledington-Price, as manager of the Corbin restaurant and motel.[4] In 1942
he sold the Asheville business.[4] In 1947, he and Josephine divorced and Sanders married Claudia in
1949, as he had long desired.[17] Sanders was "re-commissioned" as a Kentucky Colonel in 1949 by his
friend, Governor Lawrence Wetherby.[18]

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In 1952, Sanders franchised "Kentucky Fried Chicken" for the first time, to Pete Harman of South Salt
Lake, Utah, the operator of one of that city's largest restaurants.[19] In the first year of selling the
product, restaurant sales more than tripled, with 75% of the increase coming from sales of fried
chicken.[20] For Harman, the addition of fried chicken was a way of differentiating his restaurant from
competitors; in Utah, a product hailing from Kentucky was unique and evoked imagery of Southern
hospitality.[21] Don Anderson, a sign painter hired by Harman, coined the name Kentucky Fried
Chicken.[21]
At age 65 (around 1955), Sanders' sold his Corbin outlet after the new
Interstate 75 reduced his restaurant's customer traffic.[22][23] Sanders
decided to begin to franchise his chicken concept in earnest, and traveled
the US looking for suitable restaurants. After closing the Corbin site,
Sanders and his wife Claudia opened a new restaurant and company
headquarters in Shelbyville in 1959.[24]
The franchise approach became highly successful; KFC was one of the
first fast food chains to expand internationally, opening outlets in Canada
and later in England, Mexico and Jamaica by the mid-1960s. The
company's rapid expansion to more than 600 locations became
overwhelming for the aging Sanders. In 1964 he sold the Kentucky Fried
Chicken corporation for $2 million to a partnership of Kentucky
businessmen headed by John Y. Brown, Jr. (a then-29-year-old lawyer
Sanders signing his
and future governor of Kentucky) and Jack C. Massey (a venture
autograph, 1974.
capitalist and entrepreneur), and he became a salaried brand ambassador.
The initial deal did not include the Canadian operations (which Sanders
retained) or the franchising rights in England, Florida, Utah, and Montana (which Sanders had already
sold to others).[25]
In 1965 Sanders moved to Mississauga, Ontario to oversee his Canadian franchises and continued to
collect franchise and appearance fees both in Canada and in the U.S. Sanders bought and lived in a
bungalow at 1337 Melton Drive in the Lakeview area of Mississauga from 1965 to 1980.[26] In
September 1970 he and his wife were baptized in the Jordan River.[27] He also befriended Billy Graham
and Jerry Falwell.[27]
Sanders and his wife reopened their Shelbyville restaurant as "Claudia Sanders, The Colonel's Lady" and
served KFC-style chicken there as part of a full-service dinner menu, and talked about expanding the
restaurant into a chain.[28] He was sued by the company for it.[28][29]
In 1973, he sued Heublein Inc.the then parent company of Kentucky Fried Chickenover the alleged
misuse of his image in promoting products he had not helped develop. In 1975, Heublein Inc.
unsuccessfully sued Sanders for libel after he publicly described their gravy as "wallpaper paste" to
which "sludge" was added.[30]
After reaching a settlement with Heublein, he sold the Colonel's Lady restaurant, and it has continued to
operate since then (currently as the "Claudia Sanders Dinner House").[28][29] It serves his "original
recipe" fried chicken as part of its (non-fast-food) dinner menu, and it is the only non-KFC restaurant
that serves an authorized version of the fried chicken recipe.[31][32]

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After being recommissioned as a Kentucky colonel in 1950 by Governor Lawrence Wetherby, Sanders
began to dress the part, growing a goatee and wearing a black frock coat (later switching to a white suit),
a string tie, and referring to himself as "Colonel".[18] His associates went along with the title change,
"jokingly at first and then in earnest", according to biographer Josh Ozersky.[22]
He never wore anything else in public during the last 20 years of his life, using a heavy wool suit in the
winter and a light cotton suit in the summer.[22] He bleached his mustache and goatee to match his white
hair.[17]

Death
Sanders later used his stock
holdings to create the Colonel
Harland Sanders Trust and
Colonel Harland Sanders
Charitable Organization, which
used the proceeds to aid charities
and fund scholarships. His trusts
continue to donate money to
groups like the Trillium Health
Care Centre; a wing of their
Gravesite of Harland Sanders.
building specializes in women's
and children's care and has been
[33]
named after him.
The Sidney, British Columbia based foundation
granted over $1,000,000 in 2007, according to its 2007 tax return.[34]

Sanders remains the official

face of Kentucky Fried
Chicken, and appears on its
logo

Sanders was diagnosed with acute leukemia in June 1980.[7][35] He died at Jewish Hospital in Louisville,
Kentucky of pneumonia on December 16, 1980 at the age of 90.[36][37][38] His body lay in state in the
rotunda of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort after a funeral service at the Southern Baptist
Seminary Chapel, which was attended by more than 1,000 people. He was buried in his characteristic
white suit and black western string tie in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.
By the time of his death, there were an estimated 6,000 KFC outlets in 48 different countries worldwide,
with $2 billion of sales annually.[39]

Legacy
Since his death, Sanders has been portrayed by voice actors in KFC commercials in radio and an
animated version of him has been used for television commercials.
The Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball league has developed an urban legend of the "Curse of the
Colonel". A statue of Colonel Sanders was thrown into a river and lost during a 1985 fan celebration,
and (according to the legend) the "curse" has caused Japan's Hanshin Tigers to perform poorly since the
incident.[40]
One of Colonel Sanders' white suits and black clip-on bow-ties were sold at auction for $21,510 by
Heritage Auctions on June 22, 2013.[41] The suit had been given to Cincinnati resident Mike Morris by
Sanders, who was close to Morris's family. The Morris family house was purchased by Col. Sanders, and
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Sanders lived with the family for six months.[42] The suit was purchased by Kentucky Fried Chicken of
Japan president Maseo "Charlie" Watanabe. Watanabe put on the famous suit after placing the winning
bid at the auction event in Dallas, Texas.
In 2011, a manuscript of a book on cooking that Sanders apparently wrote in the mid-1960s was found
in KFC archives. It includes some cooking recipes from Sanders as well as anecdotes and life lessons.
KFC said it was planning to try some of the recipes and to publish the 200-page manuscript
online.[43][44]

Footnotes
a. ^ Sanders was given the honorary title "Kentucky Colonel" in 1935 by Governor Ruby Laffoon.
1. ^ "Harlan Sander's Family Tree" (http://www.webcitation.org/65Zp9Q9TR). www.genealogy.com. Archived
from the original (http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/colonel-sanders/index.html?
cj=1&o_xid=0001177077&o_lid=0001177077) on 2012-02-19. Retrieved March 9, 2009.
2. ^ a b c d e f The Human Tradition in the New South By James C. Klotter 130
3. ^ Sanders, Harland (1974). The Incredible Colonel. Illinois: Creation House. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-88419-0530.
4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Sanders, Harland (2012). The Autobiography of the Original
Celebrity Chef (https://s3.amazonaws.com/colcookbook/us/pdf/English_FullBook.pdf). Louisville: KFC.
ISBN 978-0-9855439-0-7. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
5. ^ a b c d The Human Tradition in the New South By James C. Klotter 131
6. ^ Ozersky, Josh (2012). Colonel Sanders and the American Dream. University of Texas Press. p. 8.
ISBN 978-0-292-74285-7.
7. ^ a b Edith Evans Asbury (December 17, 1980). "Col. Harland Sanders, Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken,
Dies: [Obituary]". The New York Times. p. A33. 936479241.
8. ^ Josh Kegley, Daughter of Colonel Sanders dies at age 91
(http://www.kentucky.com/2010/09/25/1449490/daughter-of-colonel-sanders-dies.html), Lexington HeraldLeader, September 25, 2010.
9. ^ Sanders, Harland (1974). The Incredible Colonel. Illinois: Creation House. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-88419-0530.
10. ^ Ozersky, Josh (2012). Colonel Sanders and the American Dream. University of Texas Press. p. 12.
ISBN 978-0-292-74285-7.
11. ^ a b Ozersky, Josh (2012). Colonel Sanders and the American Dream. University of Texas Press. p. 14.
ISBN 978-0-292-74285-7.
12. ^ Klotter, James C. (2005). The Human Tradition in the New South (http://books.google.com/books?
id=nzlEdUaG_xkC&pg=PA133). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 134. ISBN 978-1-4616-0096-1.
13. ^ Sanders, Harland (1974). The Incredible Colonel. Illinois: Creation House. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-88419-0530.
14. ^ Ozersky, Josh (2012). Colonel Sanders and the American Dream. University of Texas Press. p. 19.
ISBN 978-0-292-74285-7.
15. ^ KFC.co.uk | About Us | KFC History (http://www.kfc.co.uk/about-kfc/kfc-history)

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16. ^ a b Darden, Robert (January 1, 2004). Secret Recipe: Why Kfc Is Still Cooking After 50 Years
(http://books.google.com/books?id=h4vUAAAACAAJ). Tapestry Press. ISBN 978-1-930819-33-7.
Retrieved April 10, 2013.
17. ^ a b The Human Tradition in the New South By James C. Klotter 142
18. ^ a b "KFC - Colonel Sanders Cafe & Museum - America's First Kentucky Fried Chicken"
(http://web.archive.org/web/20041022135543/http://www.corbinkentucky.us/sanderscafe.htm).
Corbinkentucky.us. February 18, 1964. Archived from the original
(http://www.corbinkentucky.us/sanderscafe.htm) on 2004-10-22. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
19. ^ Nii, Jenifer K. (2004). "Colonel's landmark KFC is mashed"
(http://www.deseretnews.com/article/595057690/Colonels-landmark-KFC-is-mashed.html). Deseret Morning
News. Retrieved October 28, 2007.
20. ^ Chicken Big and the Citizen Senior By Jodi Lawrence. The Washington Post, Times Herald (19591973)
[Washington, D.C] November 9, 1969: 305.
21. ^ a b Liddle, Alan (May 21, 1990). "Pete Harman". Nation's Restaurant News.
22. ^ a b c Ozersky, Josh (September 15, 2010). "KFC's Colonel Sanders: He Was Real, Not Just an Icon"
(http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2019218,00.html). Time. Retrieved September 18, 2010.
23. ^ I've Got A Secret interview, originally broadcast April 6, 1964 (rebroadcast by GSN March 30, 2008).
24. ^ Claudia Sanders Dinner House Serves Up the Real Thing
(http://www.hellolouisville.com/restaurants/claudia_sanders_dinner_house_serves_up_the_real_thing/20303
6/), HelloLouisville.
25. ^ KFC Corporation History (http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/kfc-corporation-history/),
Funding Universe.
26. ^ KFC nixes Mississauga's Col. Sanders for new upmarket restaurant - Toronto article - News - MSN CA
(http://news.ca.msn.com/ontario/mississauga/kfc-nixes-mississaugas-col-sanders-for-new-upmarketrestaurant)
27. ^ a b The Human Tradition in the New South By James C. Klotter 153
28. ^ a b c Ryan, Ed, Colonel Sanders and His Lady: He Cooks, She Cleans the Pots
(http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20064547,00.html), People Magazine, October 7, 1974.
29. ^ a b "Col. Sanders' Chicken War Ends". The New York Times. September 12, 1975. p. 46.
30. ^ Kleber, John E.; Thomas D. Clark; Lowell H. Harrison; James C. Klotter (June 1992). The Kentucky
Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky. p. 796. ISBN 0-8131-1772-0.
31. ^ Claudia Sanders Dinner House (http://www.kentuckytourism.com/things_to_do/food_dining/claudiasanders-dinner-house/3461/), Kentucky Department of Travel web site.
32. ^ Claudia Sanders Dinner House (http://www.claudiasanders.com/) web site.
33. ^ "About Us: Tillium Health Center" (http://www.trilliumhealthcentre.org/about/mississauga.html).
Trilliumhealthcentre.org. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
34. ^ Harland Sanders Foundation on the CRA web site (http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/chrts/menu-eng.html)
35. ^ Miller, John Winn (December 16, 1980). Associated Press.
36. ^ Col. Sanders, fried chicken king, dead Chicago Tribune (1963-Current file) [Chicago, Ill] December 17,
1980: 5.
37. ^ "Milestones" (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,922291,00.html). Time. December 29,
1980. Retrieved May 19, 2008.
38. ^ "Col. Sanders, 90, Dies of Pneumonia". The Washington Post. December 17, 1980.
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39. ^ Smith, J. Y. (December 17, 1980). "Col. Sanders, the Fried-Chicken Gentleman, Dies". Washington Post.
40. ^ White, Paul (August 21, 2003). "The Colonel's curse runs deep"
(http://www.usatoday.com/sports/bbw/2003-08-21-leading-off_x.htm). USA Today. Retrieved May 28,
2009.
41. ^ Brown, Angela K, President of KFC Japan buys Colonel Sanders' trademark white suit at auction for $21K
(http://newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/103263.php) Associated Press 6/22/13
42. ^ "KFC's Col. Sanders' White Suit Fetches $21,510" (http://abcnews.go.com/Business/slideshow/kfcs-colsanders-white-suit-worth-10000-2165601). ABC News. June 22, 2012. Retrieved June 22, 2012.
43. ^ "KFC Founder Colonel Harland Sander's Secret Manuscript to Be Revealed"
(http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/11/10/kfc-founder-colonel-harland-sanders-secret-manuscript-to-berevealed/). Fox News. Associated Press. November 10, 2011. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
44. ^ Peterson, Kim (November 11, 2011). "KFC discovers Colonel Sanders' secret book"
(http://money.msn.com/top-stocks/post.aspx?post=f9426fbb-3f24-40de-a5eb-77e8d2c34662). MSN Money.
Associated Press. Retrieved December 29, 2013.

Further reading
Pearce, John, The Colonel (1982) ISBN 0-385-18122-1
Kleber, John J. et al. (1992). The Kentucky Encyclopedia. Lexington, Kentucky: University of
Kentucky Press. ISBN 0-8131-1772-0.
Encyclopedia of Kentucky. New York, New York: Somerset Publishers. 1987. pp. 185186.
ISBN 0-403-09981-1.

See also
Other Colonel Sanders
Colonel Addison Hiatt Sanders, Union Army, American Civil War
Lt. Colonel Frank P. Sanders
Colonel John C. C. Sanders, Confederate States Army, American Civil War
Lt. Colonel Peter Sanders, Indian Army
Colonel William P. Sanders, Union Army, American Civil War

External links
Kentucky Fried Chicken (http://www.kfc.com/)
Harland "Colonel" Sanders
(http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?
page=gr&GRid=926) at Find a Grave
CBC Archives
(http://archives.cbc.ca/lifestyle/food/clip/8350/) CBC
Radio talks with Colonel Sanders about Canadian food and
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cooking (from 1957).

FBI file on "Colonel" Sanders (http://vault.fbi.gov/Colonel%20Harlan%20Sanders)
Sanders on What's My Line? when he was unknown nationally (https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Wk4Eq8IcQMk) on YouTube
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