John Alexander Anderson

John Alexander Anderson

John Alexander Anderson (born June 26, 1834 in Pigeon Creek , Washington County , Pennsylvania , †  May 18, 1892 in Liverpool , England ) was an American politician . Between 1879 and 1891 he represented the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives . He was also President of Kansas State University .

Career

John Anderson attended both public and private schools. Until 1853 he studied at Miami University in Oxford ( Ohio ). In 1857 he was ordained a Presbyterian minister. Then he started in Stockton ( California to work) in this profession. In 1860 he became the curator of the California State Mental Hospital. In 1862 he became a chaplain to a volunteer regiment in California. From 1863 to 1865 he also represented the Federal Health Agency in California.

In 1868, Anderson moved to Junction City , Kansas, where he built the city's first Presbyterian church. He was also a pastor there for five years. Between 1872 and 1873 he was on the governing body of the University of Kansas . From 1873 to 1879 he was President of the Kansas State Agricultural College , better known as the Kansas State University .

Anderson was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1878 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first district of Kansas , where he succeeded William A. Phillips on March 4, 1879 . In the following years he was re-elected. Since the elections of 1884 he represented the fifth constituency of his state as the successor to Edmund Morrill . By March 3, 1891, he was able to complete a total of six legislative terms in Congress .

For the election of 1890 Anderson was not nominated again by his party. In March 1891 he was appointed American consul in Cairo . On the way back to the United States, he died in May 1892 in Liverpool, England. He was buried in Junction City.

Web links

• John Alexander Anderson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Alexander Anderson in the database of Find a Grave (English)