Sydney Anderson (September 18, 1881 – October 8, 1948) was a Representative from Minnesota; born in Zumbrota, Minnesota. After attending primary schools he served as a private in Company D, Fourteenth Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish–American War in 1898. He graduated from high school in 1899 and attended

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, Des Moines, Iowa, afterwards the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. He studied law and moved to

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, later to Lanesboro, Minnesota, continuing his law practice from 1904–1911. In 1910 at the age of 29, he defeated incumbent

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in the Republican

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with the support of Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot and other

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s, running on a platform of drastically reduced tariffs and opposition to

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. He was subsequently elected to the 62nd, 63rd, 64th, 65th, 66th, 67th, and 68th congresses, (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1925). Anderson chaired the Congressional Joint Commission of Agricultural Inquiry in 1921 and 1922. He declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1924 to the

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. Anderson later became Vice Chairman of the research council of the National Transportation Institute at Washington, DC, in 1923 and 1924; President of the Millers' National Federation, Chicago, IL, and Washington, DC, 1924–1929; Vice-President, Secretary, and, later, member of the board of directors of General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, 1930–1948; and, finally, president of the Transportation Association of America, Chicago, 1943–1948. Anderson died in Minneapolis on October 8th 1948 at the age of 67, and was buried in Lakewood Cemetery, in Minneapolis.

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