William Clayton Anderson

[2] He attended private schools and graduated from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, in 1845.

He was a presidential elector on the American Party ticket of Millard Fillmore and Donaldson in 1856.

An unsuccessful candidate for the Thirty-fifth Congress, Anderson was elected two years later as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving from March 4, 1859, to March 3, 1861.

[3] He chose not to seek reelection; and was elected instead as a Unionist candidate to the Kentucky House of Representatives.

[4] Anderson died on December 23, 1861, while on the house floor during a session of the legislature in Frankfort, Kentucky .