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Anderson, Alexander – Anderson, James Patton

Anderson, Alexander

congressman, was born Nov. 10, 1794, in Jefferson county, Tenn. He was a senator in congress from the Knoxville district, Tennessee, during the years 1840 and 1841, part of a term, and served as a member of the committee on the militia. He died May 23, 1869, in Knoxville, Tenn.

Anderson, Charles

lawyer. He was acting governor of Ohio in 1865 and 1866; and was by profession a lawyer.

He was a man of high culture, and for many years was an influential citizen of Cincinnati.

Anderson, Charles M

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 5, 1845, in Juniata county, Pa. He removed with his parents to Ohio in 1855; served in the Union army throughout the civil war; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1868. He engaged in practice at Greenville, Ohio; and in 1884 was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-ninth congress.

Anderson, Clifford

attorneygeneral, was born March 23, 1833, in Virginia. He was elected judge of Macon city court in 1856, and attorney-general of Georgia, serving in the last office ten years.

Anderson, George A

lawyer, congressman, was born March 11, 1853, in Botetourt county, Va. He removed with his parents to Hancock county, Ill., when two years of age; received a common school and collegiate education, graduating with first honors in 1876. He began the practice of law in Quincy, Ill., in 1880. He was elected city attorney of Quincy in 1884, and re-elected without opposition in 1885, and was elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.

Anderson, George B

soldier, was born in 1831 in Wilmington, N. C. He entered West Point, was graduated in 1852, and appointed second lieutenant in the second dragoons. On the breaking out of the civil war he resigned his commission to accept a brigadier-generalship in the confederate army. He died Oct. 16, 1862, in Raleigh, N. C.

Anderson, Henry James

educator, author, was born Feb. 6, 1799, in New York. He was the author of Geology of Lieutenant Lynch's Expedition to the Dead Sea; and a Geological Reconnoissance of Part of the Holy Land. He died. Oct. 19, 1875, in Hindostan.

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Anderson, Isaac

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1803 to 1807.

Anderson, Isaac

clergyman, was born March 26, 1780, in Rock Bridge, Va.

He was a successful clergyman of Maryville, Tenn., where the Southwestern Theological seminary was established through his efforts.

Anderson, J. P

congressman, was born about 1820 in Tennessee. He was. elected a delegate to the thirty-fourth congress from the territory of Washington. He died in 1873, in Memphis, Tenn.

Anderson, James O

soldier, farm-- er, legislator, was born Aug. 1, 1845, in Henderson county, Ill. He left Monmouth college when a student to enlist in the twenty-eighth regiment Illinois infantry, in which he attained the rank of second lieutenant. He was sheriff of Henderson county for ten years, and he was elected to the Illinois house of repre-- sentatives in 1888, 1890, 1892, and ing

Anderson, James Patton

soldier, was born in 1820 in Tennessee. During the civil war he held the rank of brigadier-general, C. S. A., and was promoted major-general in 1864. He died in 1873 in Memphis, Tenn.