Anderson, George W
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May 22, 1832, in Jefferson county, Tenn. He graduated at Franklin college, Tennessee; studied and practiced law; went to Missouri in 1853; was a member of the state legislature of Missouri in 1859 and 1860, and of the state senate in 1862; was a.. presidential elector in 1860; served as colonel of a regiment of the reserve corps from 1862 to 1864, and commanded the forty-ninth regiment and first battalion E. M. M. in active service. He was elected to the thirty-ninth congress, and was. re-elected to the fortieth congress as a radical.