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Clifford Anderson

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Born: March 23, 1833

Birthplace: Nottoway County, Virginia

Father: Hezekiah R. Anderson 1794 – 1843

Mother:
Martha M. Robertson 1797 – 1837

Wife: Anne LeConte 1836 – 1922
(Buried: Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia)​

Married: March 13, 1856 in Macon, Georgia

Children:

Clifford LeConte Anderson 1862 – 1933​
(Buried: Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia)​
James LeConte Anderson 1864 – 1922​
(Buried: Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia)
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Louis Joseph Anderson 1866 – 1904​
(Buried: Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia)​
Annie Anderson McKay 1870 – 1956​
(Buried: Riverside Cemetery, Macon, Georgia)​
Robert Lanier Anderson 1871 – 1959​
(Buried: Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia)​
Laura Boykin Anderson Duke 1876 – 1912​
(Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee)​
Custis N. Anderson 1876 – 1932​
(Buried: Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia)​

Political Party: Constitutional Union Party and Democratic Party

Religion:
Presbyterian

Education:

Studied law under Attorney Robert S. Lanier​

Occupation before War:

Orphaned at the age of twelve years old.​
Worker for his brother’s law office in Macon, Georgia.​
1852: Admitted to the bar in Macon, Georgia.​
Law Partner of Robert S. Lanier for over forty years.​
1856 – 1858: Judge for the City of Macon, Georgia​
1859: Georgia State Representative​
1860: Supporter of John Bell’s Unsuccessful Presidential Campaign.​
1860: Opposed Secession after Lincoln’s election as President.​
1860: Observed the Course of South Carolina toward secession.​
1860: Signed Statement with prominent Macon citizens asking the immediate secession of Georgia.​

Civil War Career:

1861: Private, Company C, 2nd​ Georgia Battalion​
1861 – 1862: Lt. Company C, 2nd​ Georgia Battalion​
1862: Lt. and Acting Ordnance Officer, Colonel E. D. Hall’s Brigade.​
1863: Lt. and Acting Assistant Adjutant and Inspector General on Brig. General Ambrose R. Wright’s Staff.​
1863: Resigned from the Confederate Army after election to congress.​
1864 – 1865: Confederate States Congressman from Georgia​
1864 – 1865: Member of House Ways and Means Committee​
1864 – 1865: Seldom participated in debate in Congress.​
1864 – 1865: Supporter of bills dealing with inequalities in tax and impressment laws.​
1864 – 1865: Supporter of efforts to fill army’s thinning ranks.​
1864 – 1865: Accepted President Davis’s dictates regarding army organization and diplomacy.​
1864 – 1865: Refused to extend the powers of central Government beyond those set by the First Congress.​
1864 – 1865: Openly repudiated the tactics of Governor Joseph Brown.​
1865: Opposed Peace negotiations and voted to arm the slaves.​

Occupation after War:

Attorney in Macon, Georgia​
1876: Chairman of Georgia State Democratic Executive Committee​
1880 – 1890: Georgia State Attorney General
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1890 – 1893: One of the first Law Professors at Mercer University when it moved to Macon, Georgia.​
1893 – 1895: Member of Georgia Committee to Codify state laws.​

Died: December 19, 1899

Place of Death: Macon, Georgia

Age at time of Death: 66 years old

Burial Place:
Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia
 
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