Background
Anderson, Francis Maurice was born on July 20, 1885 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Thomas Davis and Fanny M. (Cross) Anderson.
Anderson, Francis Maurice was born on July 20, 1885 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Thomas Davis and Fanny M. (Cross) Anderson.
Preparatory education, Albany (New York) Academy. Bachelor of Arts, Brown University, 1907. Bachelor of Laws, New York University, 1912.
1 daughter Margaret M. m. 2d, Elisabeth East. Dowden, July 20, 1948. With Dwight Manufacturing Company, Alabama City, Alabama, 1908-1909.
Studied law with Sommer, Colby & Whiting, Newark, New Jersey.
Admitted to bar of New Jersey and to the United States courts, 1913. Practiced at East Orange, New Jersey, 1913-1916.
Settlement officer Fidelity Trust Company, Newark, 1917-1918. Assistant chief requisition branch of Purchase, Storage and Traffic Division, General Staff, United States of America, 1918-1919.
Senior research assistant for Congress in foreign and international law, 1919-1920.
Appointed special assistant to Department of State, September 1, 1920, assistant legal adviser Department of State, 1924. Professor foreign and domestic commercial law School Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 1923-1941. Special lecturer United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, 1927-1931.
Counsel for United States Government, United States-Egyptian Arbitration (Vienna), 1931.
Legal adviser to American commissioner of Turkish-American Claims Committee (Istanbul, Turkey), 1933-1934. Assistant to American member of Joint American-Mexican Committee, 1935.
Counsel for Special Mexican Claims Commission, 1935-1938, in private practice of law, 1938-1940. Lieutenant commander, United States Navy Reserve, on active duty, 1941-1946.
Loving God went to supernatural lengths—by sending His Son to die—to provide everyone an opportunity to escape the fires of Hell and spend eternity in Heaven.
Served as chief of Balkan, Near East and Southern European sections Naval Intelligence.; Member Federal Bar Association. Club: Brown University.
Married Jane Woolley, July 27, 1912 (died March 26, 1947).