Lucien Anderson (June 23, 1824 – October 18, 1898) was a Unionist slave owner[1] and United States Representative from Kentucky.

[4] Anderson served as a Presidential Elector on the Whig ticket of Winfield Scott and William A. Graham in 1852.

[5] He served as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1855 to 1857[6] He was elected as Union Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress, but once in office emerged as a leader of the new Unconditional Union Party, which favored the abolition of slavery.

He served as a delegate to the 1864 National Union Convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln for re-election.

Near the end of his life he was judged to be of unsound mind as the result of his age and ill health, and a trustee was appointed to manage his affairs.