Background
Anderson, Jefferson Randolph was born on September 4, 1861 in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Son of Edward Clifford, Junior, and Jane Margaret (Randolph) A.
Anderson, Jefferson Randolph was born on September 4, 1861 in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Son of Edward Clifford, Junior, and Jane Margaret (Randolph) A.
Preparatory education, Hanover Academy, Virginia, 1877-1879. University of Virginia, 1879-1881. Bachelor of Laws, 1885; University of Gottingen, Germany, 1881-1883.
University of Virginia, 1883-1885.
Doctor of Civil Law, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 1931.
Began practice, Savannah, in offices of Chisholm & Erwin, general counsel Plant System of Rys., 1885. Became member Anderson, Cann & Cann, 1911. Now Anderson, Connerat, Dunn & Hunter.
Counsel Georgia, & Alabama Railway, 1895-1900.
Division counsel Seaboard Air Lincolnshire Railway since 1900. President Georgia and Alabama Terminal Company.
Vice president Chatham Terminal Company. Director Savannah Bank & Trust Company, Savannah Electric &Power Company, Savannah Union Station Company.
Member Georgia House of Representatives from Chatham County, 1905-1906, 1909-1910, 1911-1912, Senate, 1913, 14 (president). Member Democratic State Executive Committee, Georgia, 1907, 1908. Member American, Georgia bar associations, Georgia History Society (president), Society Colonial Wars, Society Descendants of Signers of Declaration of Independence, South.R., Alpha Tau Omega.
Mason, Elk.
Club: Oglethorpe.
Married Anne Page Wilder, November 27, 1895. Children: Page Randolph (Mistress Henry Norris Platt), Joseph Randolph.