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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriThomas Lilbourne ANDERSON
(1808-1885)
ANDERSON, Thomas
Lilbourne, a Representative from Missouri; born near Bowling
Green, Green County, Ky., December 8, 1808; attended the rural
schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1828 and commenced
practice in Franklin, Simpson County, Ky.; moved in 1830 to
Palmyra, Marion County, Mo., where he continued the practice of
law; member of the State house of representatives 1840-1844;
presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1844, 1848 and 1852;
member of the State constitutional convention in 1845; elected as a
candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fifth Congress and as
an Independent Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4,
1857-March 3, 1861); was not a candidate for renomination in 1860;
resumed the practice of law in Marion County, Mo.; died in Palmyra,
Mo., March 6, 1885; interment in the City Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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