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- Birth nameJohn Bayard Anderson
- John B. Anderson was born on February 15, 1922 in Rockford, Illinois, USA. He was married to Keke Machakos. He died on December 3, 2017 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- SpouseKeke Machakos(1953 - November 3, 2017) (his death, 5 children)
- United States Representative from Illinois, 1961 to 1981.
- Originally sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1980, but withdrew during the primary season. He chose to run as an independent candidate in the general election instead and finished with 6.6% of the popular vote, but no electoral votes.
- As a youth, he worked in the grocery store of his father, a Swedish immigrant. He attended evangelical church services several times a week.
- As a congressman, he championed the Fair Housing Act, which, as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibits racial discrimination in housing. He was a fiscal conservative but sided with liberals on social issues, including the Equal Rights Amendment, freedom of choice on abortion, and food-stamp programs.
- He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the debate team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he graduated in 1942. He served in the Army in Europe during WWII. After the war, he earned a law degree at Illinois and a master of laws degree from Harvard, and practiced law in his home town.
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