John Anderson (politician, 1792)

John Anderson (born July 30, 1792 in Windham , Massachusetts , †  August 21, 1853 in Portland , Maine ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1825 and 1833 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Born in what is now Maine, John Anderson attended public schools in his homeland and then Bowdoin College in Brunswick until 1813 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1816, he began to work in Portland in his new profession. In 1823 he was elected to the Maine Senate. Politically, he joined the later US President Andrew Jackson , whose Democratic Party he joined after it was founded in 1828.

In 1824, Anderson was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Maine , where he succeeded Stephen Longfellow on March 4, 1825 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1833 . During this time he was temporarily chairman of the electoral committee and a member of the naval committee. His entire time in Congress was marked by heated discussions between supporters and opponents of Andrew Jackson. After he was elected President in 1828, his politics became the focus of discussions. It was about the Indian Removal Act , the nullification crisis with the state of South Carolina and the banking policy of the president.

In 1832, Anderson declined to run again. Anderson was Mayor of Portland from 1833 to 1836 and again in 1842. Until 1836, he served as a federal attorney for Maine, succeeding Ether Shepley . In the years 1837 to 1841 and again from 1843 to 1848 he was in charge of customs in the port of Portland. Then he worked as a lawyer again. John Anderson died in Portland in August 1853.

Web links

• John Anderson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• John Anderson in the database of Find a Grave (English)