Lucien Anderson

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

Career

Lucien Anderson attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree in 1845 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Mayfield to work in this profession. Politically he was first a member of the Whig party. In 1852 he was one of the electors in the presidential election. Between 1855 and 1857 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky.

After the dissolution of the Whigs mid-1850s he became a member of the newly formed Republican Party. During the Civil War, Anderson was like many Republicans Unionist. In the congressional elections of 1862 he was the first electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel L. Casey on March 4, 1863. Until March 3, 1865, he completed a term in Congress, which was shaped by the events of the Civil War.

1864 Anderson waived on a bid again. In the same year he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at the President Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a second term. After retiring from the Repräsenatentenhaus Anderson moved back out of politics. As a result, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 18 October 1898 in his birthplace Mayfield.