Background
Anding was a son of John Anding (1901–1981) and Mellie B. Anding (1903–1995) of West Monroe.
Anding was a son of John Anding (1901–1981) and Mellie B. Anding (1903–1995) of West Monroe.
He served two terms from 1988 to 1996. He held several positions with the union until his retirement in 1992. In the 1987 general election, Anding narrowly defeated the Republican David Glen Haynes (born c 1954) to claim the seat vacated by Democrat Evelyn Blackmon, the first woman elected to the legislature from Ouachita Parish.
Blackmon ran third in the nonpartisan blanket primary and was hence eliminated from the second round of balloting.
Anding prevailed by 201 votes, 5,672 (509 percent) to Haynes"s 5,471 (491 percent). Number Republican challenged Anding in 1991, and he received 81 percent of the vote to secure his second term.
Walsworth received 7,745 votes (547 percent) to Anding"s 6,403 (453 percent). The Andings had three children, Anita Anding, Shirley A. Downs, and Earnest Anding.
He died at the age of seventy-five and is interred in West Monroe at Luna Methodist Cemetery.
Prior to his state House service, he had been a member of the Ouachita Parish School Board and for two terms between 1966 and 1974 an alderman on the West Monroe City Council, having served his city during the administration of Mayor Bert Hatten. In 1995, however, he was toppled by the Republican Mike Walsworth, since a member of the Louisiana State Senate.