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William Clayton Anderson

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Preceded by
  
Name
  
William Anderson

Succeeded by
  
Occupation
  
Education
  

Alma mater
  
Parents
  
Simeon H. Anderson

Nationality
  
USA

Role
  
Lawyer

Resigned
  
March 3, 1861

Born
  
December 26, 1826Lancaster, Kentucky (
1826-12-26
)

Died
  
December 23, 1861, Frankfort, Kentucky, United States

Political party
  
Know Nothing, National Union Party, Opposition Party

William Clayton Anderson (December 26, 1826 – December 23, 1861) was a nineteenth-century lawyer and politician. He served as a United States Representative from Kentucky.

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Early life and career

Anderson was born in Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky, the son of Simeon H. Anderson and nephew of Albert G. Talbott. He attended private schools and graduated from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky in 1845. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar. He began his practice in Lancaster and in 1847 moved to Danville and continued practicing law.

Anderson served as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1851 to 1853. He was a presidential elector on the American Party ticket of Millard Fillmore and Donaldson in 1856. An unsuccessful candidate for the Thirty-fifth Congress, Anderson was elected two years later as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving from March 4, 1859 to March 3, 1861. He chose not to seek reelection; and was elected instead as a Unionist candidate to the Kentucky House of Representatives.

Death

Anderson died on December 23, 1861 while on the house floor during a session of the legislature in Frankfort, Kentucky . He died three days before he would have been 35 years old. He is interred at Bell View Cemetery in Danville, Kentucky.

References

William Clayton Anderson Wikipedia


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