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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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ANDERSON, William Robert, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Bakerville, Humphreys
County, Tenn., June 17, 1921; attended the public schools in Waynesboro, Tenn.;
graduated from Columbia Military Academy, Columbia, Tenn., 1939; graduated from
the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., 1942; United States Navy,
1957-1962; participated in eleven submarine combat patrols in the Pacific;
awarded the Bronze Star and other combat awards; commanding officer of the
Nautilus, the first atomic submarine, 1957-1959; made the
first transpolar voyage under ice; served as assistant to Vice Adm. H. J.
Rickover; consultant to President Kennedy for the National Service Corps, 1963;
author; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth and to the three succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1973); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection to the Ninety-third Congress in 1972; business executive, Public
Office Corporation, Washington, D.C.; died on February 25, 2007, in Leesburg,
Va.
BibliographyRalph Nader Congress Project.
Citizens Look at Congress: William R. Anderson, Democratic
Representative from Tennessee. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers,
1972.
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