Hugh J. Anderson

DATE OF BIRTH:  May 10, 1801

PLACE OF BIRTH:  Wiscasset

DATE OF DEATH:  May 31, 1881

PLACE OF DEATH:  Portland

PROFESSION:  Merchant

POLITICAL AFFILIATION:  Democrat

TERM IN OFFICE:  January 5, 1844 – May 19, 1847

FIRST LADY:  Martha J. Dummer

QUOTE: The road from the Aroostook river to Fort Kent, a distance of forty-five miles, and which was previously unpassable for carriages, has been thoroughly repaired, and the road from Masardis, connected with it, has been also essentially improved.

Inaugural Address, January 5, 1844

OTHER ELECTED OR APPOINTED OFFICES: Clerk of Courts for Waldo County, Congressman, Commissioner of Customs for the U.S. Treasury, Chairman of the Commission on the San Francisco Mint, Auditor of the U. S. Treasury