Joseph Anderson (5 November 1757 – 17 April 1837) was a US Senator from Tennessee from 26 September 1797 to 3 March 1799, succeeding William Blount and preceding William Cocke, and from 4 March 1799 to 3 March 1815, succeeding Daniel Smith and preceding George W. Campbell. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party member.
Biography[]
Joseph Anderson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1757, and he served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, fighting at the Battle of Monmouth and the Siege of Yorktown. At the end of the war, he was discharged with the rank of major, and he practiced law in Delaware from 1784 to 1791. In 1791, he became judge of the Southwest Territory, and he represented Jefferson County at the state's constitutional convention in 1796. In 1797, Anderson was appointed to succeed the expelled William Blount in the US Senate, and he was elected to Tennessee's other state in 1799 to succeed the acting Senator, Daniel Smith. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, he opposed the rechartering of a national bank, the Alien and Sedition Acts, and the curtailing of slavery, and he served as Comptroller of the Treasury from 1815 to 1836. He died in 1837.