Glenn M. Anderson

Glenn Malcolm Anderson ( born February 21, 1913 in Hawthorne, California, † December 13, 1994 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American politician. Between 1969 and 1993 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Glenn Anderson studied until 1936 at the University of California at Los Angeles. He then worked in the real estate industry. In the meantime, he served in the U.S. Army. Then he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1940-1942 he was mayor of his hometown of Hawthorne. Then he sat 1942-1948 as a deputy in the California State Assembly. Between 1959 and 1967, Anderson was vice- governor of his home state. During the same period he was also chairman of the California Land Commission.

In the congressional elections of 1968, Anderson was in the 17th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Cecil R. King on January 3, 1969. After eleven re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1993 twelve legislatures. From 1989 to 1991 he was Chairman of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation. In his time as a congressman fell among other things, the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal.

1992 Anderson renounced to another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he retired from politics. He died on 13 December 1994 in Los Angeles.