Samuel Wagner Anderson (1898–1962) was an American businessman who served as assistant secretary of commerce for international affairs under U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1955.
He was a partner at the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs in 1941, when he was asked to work for the War Production Board, directing the aluminum and magnesium expansion program.
After World War II, he returned to investment banking, this time at Lehman Brothers, but in 1948 went back to Washington to serve on the Economic Cooperation Administration, which administered the Marshall Plan.
In this position, he called for the liberalization of international trade to meet "the necessity of giving our friends abroad the opportunity to earn their way by selling more to us.
"[1] After leaving government, Anderson became an honorary fund-raising chair of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and began speaking publicly about the need to stem rapid population growth, both in the United States and overseas.