William Anderson (Pennsylvania)

William Anderson (* 1762 in Virginia; † December 16 1829 in Chester, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1809 and 1819 he represented two times the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Anderson attended the public schools of his home. During the Revolutionary War he served since 1777 in spite of his youth in the Continental Army. He participated in several battles and rose to the Major. He then worked from 1796 in Chester as a hotelier. In 1804 he was Bezirksrevisor in Delaware County; in 1805 he headed the district authority to care for the poor ( County Director of the Poor ). Politically, he was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1808 Anderson was the first electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jacob Richards on March 4, 1809. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1815 three legislative periods. In his time as a congressman of the British -American War of 1812 fell. In 1816, Anderson was elected to Congress again in the first district of his state, where he was able to complete his last term of between 4 March 1817 and 3 March 1819.

Between 1826 and 1828 was William Anderson Associate District Judge. Since 1828, he served as a customs inspector in Philadelphia. He died on 16 December 1829 in Chester.