Lucien Anderson

Lucien Anderson

Lucien Anderson (born June 23, 1824 in Mayfield , Kentucky , †  October 18, 1898 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1863 and 1865 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lucien Anderson attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1845, he began to work in Mayfield in this profession. Politically, he was initially a member of the Whig Party . In 1852 he was one of their electors in the presidential election . Between 1855 and 1857 he was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives .

After the Whigs dissolved in the mid-1850s, he became a member of the newly formed Republican Party . Like many Republicans, Anderson was a Unionist during the Civil War . In the congressional elections of 1862 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Samuel L. Casey on March 4, 1863 . By March 3, 1865, he completed a term in Congress that was shaped by the events of the civil war.

In 1864 Anderson declined to run again. That same year he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention , on which President Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a second term. After leaving the House of Representatives, Anderson withdrew from politics. As a result, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on October 18, 1898 in his native Mayfield.

Web links

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

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