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John Anderson (1792—1853) ANDERSON, John, a Representative from Maine; born in Windham, Maine, July 30, 1792; attended the common schools; was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1813; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1816 and commenced practice in Portland, Maine; member of the State senate in 1823; elected to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses and elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1833); chairman, Committee on Elections (Twentieth Congress), Committee on Naval Affairs (Twenty-second Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1832; mayor of Portland 1833-1836 and again in 1842; United States attorney for the district of Maine 1833-1836; collector of customs for the port of Portland 1837-1841 and 1843-1848; resumed the practice of law; died in Portland, Maine, August 21, 1853; interment in Town Cemetery (then a part of the farm of his ancestors) on River Road, Windham, Maine. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present; contributed by A. Newell Martin Brewer Anderson 1812-1890 Educator, college president, was born Feb. 12, 1815, in Brunswick, Maine. In 1850 he became proprietor and editor of the New York Recorder, a weekly Baptist journal. In 1853-90 he was president of the University of Rochester. He died Feb. 26, 1890, in Lake Helen, Fla. [Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 Submitted and  Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

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