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Senate Years of Service: 1797-1815 Party: Democratic Republican
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ANDERSON, Joseph Inslee, (father of Alexander Outlaw Anderson),
a Senator from Tennessee; born near Philadelphia, Pa., November 5,
1757; studied law; served throughout the Revolutionary War and attained the
rank of brevet major; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Delaware for
several years; appointed United States judge of the Territory South of the Ohio
River in 1791; member of the first constitutional convention of Tennessee;
elected in 1797 to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term
ending March 3, 1799, caused by the expulsion of William Blount; again elected
December 12, 1798, to fill the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1803, caused
by the resignation of Andrew Jackson; reelected in 1803; appointed and
subsequently reelected in 1809 for the ensuing term and served continuously
from September 26, 1797, to March 3, 1815; served as President pro tempore of
the Senate during the Eighth Congress; First Comptroller of the Treasury
1815-1836; lived in retirement until his death in Washington, D.C., on April
17, 1837; interment in the Congressional Cemetery.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; McMillan, Fay E. A
Biographical Sketch of Joseph Anderson (1759-1837).
East Tennessee Historical Societys Publications 2 (1930):
81-93.
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