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John Nelson Anderson

Republican

Date Party Office Votes Result
11-08-1904 Republican SD-39 5250 Win
11-05-1912 Republican SD-39 10799 Win
Website: www.findagrave.com/memorial/69547707/john-nelson-anderson
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: July 15, 1864 in Keene, Ontario, Canada
Married: Elizabeth H. Millar
Died: 1936 in Orange Co., CA

Previous: Member, Santa Ana Board of Education
Previous: Trustee, Whittier State School

 

  • NOTABLE CONSTITUENT: Anderson was the State Senator who represented President Richard Nixon from his birth in 1913 until around age one (when Anderson's term ended).

 

Source: California Blue Book (1907), (1911)