William Clayton Anderson

William Clayton Anderson ( born December 26, 1826 in Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky, † December 23, 1861 in Frankfort, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1859 and 1861 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Life

William Anderson was the son of Simeon H. Anderson (1802-1840), who was also of 1839-1840 the state of Kentucky in Congress. He was also a nephew of Albert G. Talbott, his predecessor in the U.S. House of Representatives. Anderson attended private schools and thereafter until 1845, the Centre College in Danville. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in Lancaster to work in this profession. In 1847 he moved his office and his residence to Danville.

Politically Anderson was initially a member of the Whig party. Between 1851 and 1853 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. After the dissolution of the Whigs, he was a member of the short-lived American Party. In the presidential election of 1856 he was one of the electors who voted for the former president Millard Fillmore, said the choice had no chance of victory. That same year, Anderson ran unsuccessfully for Congress.

In the congressional elections of 1858 he was a candidate of the opposition party, which he had joined in the meantime, in the fourth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded his uncle Albert Talbott on March 4, 1859. Since he resigned in 1860 to run again, Anderson was able to complete only one term in the U.S. House of Representatives until March 3, 1861. This was marked by the discussions leading to the Civil War. In 1861 he was elected as a Unionist again in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. He died during a session of the Chamber on 23 December 1861.