(1801—?)

Hugh J. Anderson; was born in Maine, in 1801; was Clerk of the Waldo County Courts from 1827 to 1837; a Representative in Congress from Maine, from 1837 to 1841, and a member of the Committee on Naval Affairs; was a lawyer by profession; Governor of Maine from 1844 to 1847; a Presidential Elector in 1849; Commissioner of Customs in Washington, from 1853 to 1858. In October, 1866, was appointed, by President Johnson, Sixth Auditor of the Treasury
(Source: Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States, by Charles Lanman, 1887)