Joseph Anderson (Tennessee politician)

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From January to December 1805, Anderson served as President pro tempore of the United States.

Biography

Early life

Anderson was born at White Marsh, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of William Anderson and Elizabeth Inslee.<ref name=mcmillan />Template:Rp He acquired a good education and studied law.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite BDA1906</ref> In 1776, following the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, he enlisted in the 3rd New Jersey Regiment of the Continental Army, and rose to the rank of captain and paymaster in less than two years.<ref name=mcmillan />Template:Rp Anderson fought at the Battle of Monmouth, and was with the army during its difficult 1777 wintering at Valley Forge.<ref name=tbj /> In 1781, he transferred to the 1st New Jersey Regiment, and fought with this unit at the Battle of Yorktown.<ref name=tbj />

At the end of the war, Anderson was discharged with the rank of major.<ref name=rothrock /> Having studied law before the war, he was admitted to the Delaware bar, and practiced law in Delaware from 1784 to 1791.<ref name=rothrock /> He owned slaves.<ref name="Congress slaveowners">Template:Citation</ref>

Anderson was a Freemason. He was a member of Military Lodge No. 19 of Pennsylvania and became a member of Lodge No. 36 while in the New Jersey Brigade. After the war, he was the first Senior Warden of Princeton Lodge No. 38 in Princeton, New Jersey. <ref>Denslow, William R. 10,000 Famous Freemasons, Vol. I, A-D.</ref>

Early Tennessee politics

In 1791, President George Washington appointed Anderson United States judge of the newly formed Southwest Territory.<ref name=":0" /> He served alongside David Campbell and John McNairy.<ref name=langsdon /> No records of any of the trials presided over by Anderson survive, with the exception of a 1794 murder trial.<ref name=mcmillan />Template:Rp This trial, conducted at the Tellico Blockhouse, concerned an Indian charged with killing settler Joseph Ish.<ref name=mcmillan />Template:Rp

In 1792, Anderson married Only Patience Outlaw, the daughter of Tennessee pioneer Alexander Outlaw.<ref name=rothrock /> His wife's dowry included land along the Nolichucky River in what is now Hamblen County (but was then a part of Jefferson), where the Andersons built their home, Soldier's Rest.<ref name=rothrock /><ref>Mrs. Burwin Haun,Hamblen County,Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2009. Retrieved: September 15, 2011.</ref>

In 1796, Anderson and his father-in-law represented Jefferson County at Tennessee's constitutional convention in Knoxville.<ref name=mcmillan />Template:Rp Resolutions introduced by Anderson and Outlaw included a motion to sever ties with the United States if Tennessee's petition for statehood was rejected, a motion to implement viva voce voting instead of balloting, and a motion to establish a unicameral legislature, all of which were rejected.<ref name=mcmillan />Template:Rp Anderson swore in the new state's first legislature later that year.<ref name=mcmillan />Template:Rp

United States Senate

In 1797, Anderson was elected by the Tennessee General Assembly to fill the vacancy in the Senate created by that body's expulsion of the seat's original occupant, William Blount.<ref name=rothrock /> That term was scheduled to expire on March 3, 1799; however, on December 12, 1798, the Tennessee General Assembly elected Anderson to the state's other (Class 1) Senate seat, which had been vacated by Andrew Jackson, and was temporarily held by Daniel Smith.<ref name=langsdon>Phillip Langsdon, Tennessee: A Political History (Franklin, Tenn.: Hillsboro Press, 2000), pp. 29-30, 39-41.</ref> Anderson was re-elected to this seat in 1803, and again in 1809. In the latter election, he defeated retiring governor John Sevier by a vote of 23 to 16.<ref name=mcmillan />Template:Rp

Anderson voted against a Senate proposal to have Blount arrested in 1797. He opposed the Alien and Sedition Acts, federal intervention into the issue of slavery, the rechartering of the national bank, and the usage of military force in the Quasi-War.<ref name=tbj /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He voted in favor of the War of 1812.<ref name=langsdon /> In the Eighth Congress (1803–1804), he served as the Senate's president pro tempore.<ref name=tbj />

Later life

After retiring from the Senate, Anderson was appointed Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury, the first to hold that office, by President James Madison, and served in that office from 1815 until 1836.<ref name=rothrock /><ref name=":0" /> He died in Washington on April 17, 1837, and was interred in the Congressional Cemetery.<ref name=rothrock />

Legacy

Anderson's grave.

Anderson's son, Alexander Outlaw Anderson, served as a U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1840 to 1841, and helped organize the government of the State of California in the early 1850s.<ref name=rothrock /> Another son, William, served in the state legislature, and a nephew, James W. Deaderick, served as a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court.<ref name=mcmillan />Template:Rp Anderson County, Tennessee, is named for Joseph Anderson, as well as Andersonville.<ref>Tara Mitchell Mielnik, "Anderson County," Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2009. Retrieved: September 15, 2011.</ref>