Barry Anderson

Anderson was born on 31 August 1956 in his white lower class family home in Columbia, Missouri. He was the 7th of 8 children and was generally neglected by his parents. However, he was bright and he attended school until age 18 and served in the US army from 1974-1976, although he notably could not afford to attend university. Anderson also made his 1st prominent political move when in 1980 he wrote a conservative news article criticising abortion, calling it "aggravated homicide" and arguing for life imprisonment and even a potential death sentence for repeat offenders to be enforced as a punishment for it.

He first rose to a political position when in 1984 he became a member of the municipal legislature of the city of Columbia, and later became a state senator in 1990, where he pushed for strong social conservative policies and was criticised by Democrats of being 'racist' and 'backwards'. He put forward laws banning abortion, increasing penalties for homosexuality and repealing anti-discrimination laws.

He was a Republican nominee for a United States senator from Missouri in 2002, despite a strongly fought primaries compared to the relatively easy actual election win - in which he received 56% of the vote - with an anti-terrorism, anti-Islam and pro-Iraq war campaign, and managed to gain that position he has held ever since. He was a staunch supporter of President Burke and the War on Terror, and his focus generally shifted from anti-abortion to anti-Islam. He has always been a backbencher (the fact he has never been on the front benches many put down to his extreme views), though he has kept in the party line the majority of the time but regularly supports bills proposed by right-wing extremists that don't have the support of the mainstream Republican Party. He was re-elected in 2008 and received a new, vocal Evangelical Paleoconservative support base. He was one of the founding members of the Tea Party Caucus in 2009, and also received huge support from the pro-Israel lobby. He was an opponent of Rashid Baharia, and denounced Baharia's healthcare reforms. He was re-elected a third time in 2014, by an increased majority. He is now more prominent than ever being a vocal supporter of President Wolf, although pollsters have predicted he could lose his seat in the Senate primaries in 2024.

He married his one and only wife, Denise, in 1978. His father died in 1997, aged 71, and his mother in 2014, aged 85. He does not have any children.

In 2020, he announced his intention to resign from the Senate on account of ill health.