Chapman Levy Anderson (March 15, 1845 – April 27, 1924) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a

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from

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, from 1887 to 1891. A

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veteran, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

Biography

Anderson was born near

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, on March 15, 1845. He attended the common schools in

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Family

He was the son of Thomas Salmond Anderson (born 1819) and his wife, Flora E. (Levy) Anderson (born 1823). He was related to

Chapman Levy Chapman Levy (1787–1849) was a lawyer, officer in the War of 1812, state legislator, and plantation owner. He was born in Camden, South Carolina and grew up in Columbia, South Carolina. He worked as a lawyer in Camden. He was Jewish. He was mar ...

. Chapman Anderson's eldest brother, Edward Henry Anderson, served in the Confederate Army and died at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861.

Civil War

In 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate States Army on March 5, 1862, as a private in the Thirty-ninth Regiment, Mississippi Volunteer Infantry. He was promoted through the successive grades of noncommissioned officer until July 1864, when he was transferred to Bradford's cavalry corps of scouts with the rank of second lieutenant, in which capacity he served until the close of the war.

Early career

In January 1866, he entered the

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, and studied a partial course in law and literature until the summer of 1867. He was then admitted to the

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on February 14, 1868. He commenced practice in

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. He served as mayor of Kosciusko, Mississippi in 1875. He served as member of the

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in 1879 and 1880.

Congress

Anderson was elected as a

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to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1891). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1890. Anderson's 1888 Republican opponent,

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, unsuccessfully contested the election results. Later, in 1890, Cook was ambushed and murdered by a gang of white supremacists while campaigning to be a delegate at Mississippi's 1890 Constitutional Convention.

Later career and death

He served as

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for the northern district of Mississippi in 1896 and 1897. He worked at his law office in Kosciusko, Mississippi, until his death, April 27, 1924. He was interred in Kosciusko Cemetery.

Personal life

Anderson was an

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. He married Nancy Cunningham Johnson of Kirkwood,

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, on December 22, 1870. He had three children: Jenny Flora; Chapman Levy, who died on September 25, 1883; and Mary Ellen, who married lawyer James E. Teat on June 22, 1904.

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