George Washington Anderson (May 22, 1832 – February 26, 1902) was an American politician and attorney from Missouri.
[1] He attended the local schools and graduated from Nashville's Franklin College, where his father was math professor for a time.
He moved to St. Louis in 1853, studied law, and in 1854 was admitted to the bar in Louisiana, Missouri.
Though he had been a slave owner,[2] during the American Civil War he joined the Pike County Regiment of the Missouri Home Guard, and was elected to command Company A as a captain.
When the militia was reorganized, Anderson was chosen as commander of the 49th Regiment with the rank of colonel, and he led his unit from August 1862 to January 1863, and from September to December 1864.