ANDERSON, THOMAS LILBOURNE, a Representative from Missouri; born near Bowling Green, Green County, Ky.,
December 8, 1808; attended the rural schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1828 and
commenced practice in Franklin, Simpson County, Ky.; moved in 1830 to Palmyra, Marion County,
Mo., where he continued the practice of law; member of the State house of representatives
1840-1844; presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1844, 1848 and 1852; member of the State
constitutional convention in 1845; elected as a candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fifth
Congress and as an Independent Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3,
1861); was not a candidate for renomination in 1860; resumed the practice of law in Marion County,
Mo.; died in Palmyra, Mo., March 6, 1885; interment in the City Cemetery.
