{{Short description|American politician}} {{other people|Daniel Anderson}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | name = Daniel L. Anderson | state_house = Pennsylvania | district = 31st | term_start = January 1, 1991<ref>{{cite web |title = SESSION OF 1991 - 175TH OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY - No. 1|work = Legislative Journal| publisher = Pennsylvania House of Representatives |date = 1991-01-01|url = http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/HJ/1991/0/19910101.pdf}}</ref> | term_end = November 30, 1992<ref>Per Article II, Section 2 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, the legislative session ended on November 30, 1992</ref> | predecessor = Brian D. Clark | successor = David J. Steil | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1968|9|20}}<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=The Pennsylvania Manual|author1=DiFlaviana, K.|author2=Pennsylvania|author3=Pennsylvania. Dept. of Property and Supplies|author4=Pennsylvania. Bureau of Publications|date=1991|volume=110|publisher=Department of Property and Supplies for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania|isbn=9780818201455|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dz6JAAAAMAAJ|access-date=2014-12-27}}</ref> | birth_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States | death_date = | death_place = | party = Republican | alma_mater = Penn State University<br>Robert Morris College | occupation = Real estate broker | spouse = | children = | website = }}
'''Daniel L. Anderson''' (born September 20, 1968) is a former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
Anderson graduated from Hampton High School and attended Penn State University for two years and Robert Morris College for one.<ref name=pitz /> He then obtained his real-estate broker's license and worked for Howard Hanna Real Estate Services and managed property for Ray Anderson and Sons.<ref name=pitz />
He was first elected to represent the 31st legislative district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1990.<ref name=pitz>{{cite news | last = Pitz| first = Marylynne| title = GOP Features Battle of '20-Somethings'| newspaper = Pittsburgh Post-Gazette| publisher = P.G. Publishing Co. | date = April 6, 1994}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| last = Cox| first = Harold| title = Pennsylvania House of Representatives - 1991-1992 |work = Wilkes University Election Statistics Project| publisher = wilkes University| date = 12 October 2004 | url = https://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/legis/175H.pdf}}</ref> After the 1992 legislative redistricting, that district was merged with the 30th legislative district, which was represented by long-time incumbent Republican Rick Cessar.<ref name=pitz /><ref name="google2">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=o1MNAAAAIBAJ&dq=dan%20anderson%20cessar&pg=6761%2C2895863|title=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive Search|access-date=2014-12-27}}</ref> After Cessar defeated Anderson in the Republican primary, Anderson sought to run in the general election as an independent, but was blocked by the Bureau of Commissions, Elections and Legislation, based on a state law preventing independent candidacies by individuals who held another party's registration at the time of the primary.<ref name=pitz />
In 1994, he again ran for the 30th legislative district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives following the retirement of incumbent Rick Cessar.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PG&p_theme=pg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADEFC6A6ED88B7&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=1994-04-06|title=Post-Gazette.com|access-date=2014-12-27}}</ref><ref name=doubt>{{cite news | last = Blazina| first = Ed| title = Habay's political future in doubt| work = Pittsburgh Post Gazette | publisher = PG Publishing Co., Inc. | date = 2005-04-05| url = http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05093/482030-54.stm}}</ref> He lost the Republican primary to 28-year-old Jeff Habay. In 2000, Anderson and a former Habay staffer initiated campaign audit proceedings that would eventually lead to a Habay being convicted in 2005 on ethics law violations.<ref name=doubt /> In May 2004, during that trial Habay filed a false police report claiming that Anderson had mailed him anthrax.<ref>{{cite news | last = Banks | first = Banks | title = Habay gets jail for violating ethics laws | work = Pittsburgh Post Gazette | publisher = PG Publishing Co., Inc. | date = 2007-05-01| url = http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07121/782409-54.stm}}</ref>
He is the Township Manager for Indiana Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania<ref>{{cite news| access-date = 2009-06-24| title = Indiana Township| work = Pittsburgh Tribune Review| publisher = The Tribune-Review Publishing Co.| date = 2006-09-16| url = http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleynewsdispatch/community/s_470770.html| quote = "Township manager: Dan Anderson"}}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="pittsburghlive">{{cite web|url=http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/whispers/s_324659.html|title=Hopefuls smelling the death of Rep. Jeff Habay's career | TribLIVE|publisher=pittsburghlive.com|access-date=2014-12-27|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120908124734/http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/whispers/s_324659.html|archive-date=2012-09-08|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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