[3] In November 1903, Anderson purchased the Southern Sentinel newspaper and moved from Dumas to Ripley, Mississippi.

[1] On November 5, 1907, Anderson was elected to represent Tippah and Benton Counties in the House for the term spanning from 1908 to 1912.

[1] On November 7, 1911, Anderson was elected to the Mississippi State Senate, representing the 36th District (comprising Union, Tippah, Marshall, Benton, and Tate Counties), for the term spanning from 1912 to 1916.

[5] In 1922, Anderson ran again for Congress, and received an endorsement from former legislative colleague and State Senate president pro tempore Carroll Kendrick.

[6] In 1923, Anderson was re-elected to the House, and served a third term there (representing Tippah and Benton Counties) spanning from 1924 to 1928.

[7] During this term, Anderson led the passage of a $2.5 million appropriation to create a new "hospital for the insane" in Jackson.

[8] Three other candidates were also in the race: former governor Theodore G. Bilbo, erstwhile state auditor George C. Riley, and former House Speaker Martin Sennet Conner.

[11] In 1930, the Mississippi Legislature authorized a sum of $20,000 to be used in order to get statues of Jefferson Davis and James Z. George to be placed in the National Statuary Hall.

[12] Anderson, alongside D. C. Branlette and C. L. Lincoln, were part of a three-person commission in charge of using the funds to secure statues of the two men and have them placed in the hall.