John Anderson (Maine)

John Anderson ( born July 30, 1792 in Windham, Massachusetts; † August 21, 1853 in Portland, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1825 and 1833 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born in present-day Maine John Anderson attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1813, the Bowdoin College in Brunswick. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1816 admitted to the bar he began in Portland to work in his new profession. In 1823 he was elected to the Senate of Maine. Politically, he joined the later U.S. President Andrew Jackson, whose Democratic Party, he joined after its foundation in 1828.

1824 Anderson was in the second electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Stephen Longfellow on 4 March 1825. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1833 four legislative sessions. During this time he was temporarily Chairman of the Election Committee and member of the Marine Committee. His entire time in Congress was marked by fierce debate between supporters and Gegenern of Andrew Jackson. After this had been elected in 1828 as President, was his policy at the center of discussions. It was about the Indian Removal Act, which Nullifikationskrise with the State of South Carolina and banking policy of the President.

In 1832, Anderson gave up another candidacy. From 1833 to 1836, and again in 1842, Anderson was mayor of Portland. Until 1836, he also functioned as a federal prosecutor for Maine. In the years 1837 to 1841 and again from 1843 to 1848 he directed the customs authorities at the port of Portland. After that he worked as a lawyer again. John Anderson died in August 1853 in Portland.