“My ultimate goal is to run for president of the United States,” says the 22-year-old Tulane University senior, who was sworn in recently as the youngest person ever elected to the Mississippi state legislature. “In the short term, I eventually plan to get elected to Congress and use that as a stepping stone to get to the White House.”
Ambitious? Perhaps, but it’s that kind of self-confidence that helped the Gross Point, Miss. native defeat seasoned politician Aneice Lidell in a Democratic run-off last November for state representative.
Now, with a new legislative session scheduled to begin in just a few weeks, Anderson — who is majoring in homeland security and public relations at Tulane’s Gulf Coast campus in Biloxi — says that he will take just two online courses this semester so that he can focus on the issues that impact his constituents.
