William Anderson (Pennsylvania)

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William Anderson
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 1st district
In office
1817–1819
In office
1809–1815
Personal details
Born 1762
Accomack County, Virginia
Died December 16, 1829 (aged 67)
Political party Democratic-Republican

William Anderson (1762 – December 16, 1829) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

William Anderson was born in Accomack County, Virginia, in 1762. Married to Elizabeth Dixon. During the Revolutionary War, he joined the Continental Army at the age of fifteen and served until the end of the war. He was a major on the staff of General Lafayette and distinguished himself at Germantown and Yorktown. He was engaged in the hotel business as landlord of the Columbia House in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1796. He served as county auditor in 1804 and county director of the poor in 1805. He was a Jeffersonian democrat and held many public offices.

Anderson was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Congresses. He was elected to the Fifteenth Congress. He was appointed an associate judge of the county court on January 5, 1826, and resigned in 1828 to become an inspector of customs in Philadelphia. He served until his death in Chester in 1829. Interment in Old St. Paul’s Cemetery.

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    United States House of Representatives
    Preceded by
    Benjamin Say
    Jacob Richards
    John Porter
    Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
    from Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district

    1809–1815

    1809–1815 alongside: Adam Seybert
    1809–1811 alongside: John Porter
    1811–1813 alongside: James Milnor
    1813–1815 alongside: John Conard and Charles J. Ingersoll

    Succeeded by
    Joseph Hopkinson
    William Milnor
    Thomas Smith
    Jonathan Williams
    Preceded by
    Joseph Hopkinson
    William Milnor
    Thomas Smith
    John Sergeant
    Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
    from Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district

    1817–1819

    alongside: Joseph Hopkinson, Adam Seybert and John Sergeant

    Succeeded by
    John Sergeant
    Thomas Forrest
    Samuel Edwards
    Joseph Hemphill


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