Anderson graduated from Hampton High School and attended Penn State University for two years and Robert Morris College for one.
[4] He then obtained his real-estate broker's license and worked for Howard Hanna Real Estate Services and managed property for Ray Anderson and Sons.
[4][6] After Cessar defeated Anderson in the Republican primary, Anderson sought to run in the general election as an independent, but was blocked by the Bureau of Commissions, Elections and Legislation, based on a state law preventing independent candidacies by individuals who held another party's registration at the time of the primary.
[4] In 1994, he again ran for the 30th legislative district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives following the retirement of incumbent Rick Cessar.
[8] In May 2004, during that trial Habay filed a false police report claiming that Anderson had mailed him anthrax.