For others of the same name see William Anderson (disambiguation).

William A. Anderson was politician and judge in the state of Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

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Biography

Anderson was born to Daniel and Cynthia Anderson on October 19, 1873 in Adams County, Wisconsin

Adams County, Wisconsin

Adams County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Sources differ as to whether its name is in honor of the second President of the United States, John Adams, or his son, the sixth President, John Quincy Adams. As of 2000, the population of Adams County was 18,643. Its county seat is...

. Later he would marry Myra Blackmun on November 25, 1897. Anderson died in 1954.

Career

Anderson served as Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...

from 1931 to 1933. Following his tenure as mayor, he unsuccessfully ran for seat on the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1934. Later he would serve as a municipal court judge and district judge.