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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeANDERSON, Alexander Outlaw
(1794—1869)
Senate Years of Service:
1840-1841
Party:
Democrat
ANDERSON, Alexander Outlaw, (son of Joseph Anderson), a Senator from Tennessee; born at “Soldiers’ Rest,” Jefferson County, Tenn., November 10, 1794; attended preparatory schools; graduated from Washington College at Greeneville, Tenn.; enlisted in the War of 1812 and fought in the Battle of New Orleans; studied law in Washington, D.C.; admitted to the bar in 1814 in Dandridge, Tenn., where he practiced law; later moved to Knoxville; superintendent of the United States land office in Alabama in 1836; government agent for removing the Indians from Alabama and Florida in 1838; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hugh L. White, and served from February 26, 1840, to March 3, 1841; was not a candidate for reelection; leader of an overland company which went to California in 1849; member of the State senate in 1850 and 1851; supreme court judge of California 1851-1853; returned to Tennessee in 1853; later practiced law in Washington, D.C., before the Court of Claims and before the Supreme Court of the United States; during the Civil War moved to Alabama and practiced law in Mobile and Camden; died in Knoxville, Tenn., May 23, 1869; interment in the Old Gray Cemetery.
Bibliography
McKellar, Kenneth. “Alexander Outlaw Anderson,” in Tennessee Senators as Seen by One of their Successors
. Kingsport, Tenn.: Southern Publishers, Inc., 1942, 222-230.
Anderson, Alexander. The Letter of Alexander Anderson, of Tennessee, in Reply to the Committee of Invitation to Attend a Dinner Given by the Democracy of Maury, Tennessee, on the 13th July to the Delegation from that State to the National Convention.
n.p., 1844.
McKellar, Kenneth. “Alexander Outlaw Anderson,” in Tennessee Senators as seen by one of their Successors
. Kingsport, Tenn.: Southern Publishers, Inc., 1942, 222-230.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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