Thomas Lilbourne Anderson

Thomas Lilbourne Anderson

Thomas Lilbourne Anderson (born December 8, 1808 at Bowling Green , Kentucky , †  March 6, 1885 in Palmyra , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1857 and 1861 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Anderson attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1828, he began to work in Franklin in this profession. In 1830 he moved his law firm and residence to Palmyra, Missouri. Politically, he became a member of the Whig Party , founded in the mid-1830s . Anderson was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1840 to 1844 . In 1844, 1848 and 1852 he was the elector for his party in the respective presidential elections . In 1845 he took part as a delegate at a meeting to revise the state constitution.

After the Whigs dissolved, Thomas Anderson first joined the American Party in the 1850s . In the congressional election of 1856 he was elected as their candidate in the second constituency of Missouri to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Gilchrist Porter on March 4, 1857 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1861 . These were shaped by the events leading up to the civil war . When he was re-elected in 1858, Anderson no longer ran for the American Party, but as an independent Democrat .

In 1860, Anderson declined to run again. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he retired from politics and practiced as a lawyer again. Thomas Anderson died on March 6, 1885 in Palmyra, where he was also buried. He was married to Russella Easton (1809-1840).

Web links

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

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