Jack Z. Anderson

John Zuinglius "Jack" Anderson ( born March 22, 1904 in Oakland, California, † February 9, 1981 in Hollister, California ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1953 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

1913 John Anderson came with his parents to San Jose, where he attended the public schools. In 1923 he graduated from the local high school. Two years later he moved to the San Benito County, where he was engaged in farming and fruit growing. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1938, Anderson was the eighth electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John J. McGrath on January 3, 1939. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1953 seven legislative sessions. There, until 1941, the last New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and its aftermath was marked. After Anderson experienced as a deputy to the beginning of the Cold War. In 1952 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives was Jack Anderson board member of Bank of America. He was also president of the California Canning Pear Association and the Pacific Canning Pear Association. In the years 1954 and 1955 he worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. From 1956 to 1961 he was on the staff of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was then to 1962 employees in the Veterans Committee of the Congress. Subsequently, Anderson moved back to retire, which he spent in Hollister, where he died on 9 February 1981.