Phelps Anderson is an American politician and businessman serving as a member of the

New Mexico House of Representatives ) is the lower house of the New Mexico State Legislature. There are 70 members of the House. Each member represents roughly 25,980 residents of New Mexico. The most recent elections were held on November 3, 2020. Composition Leadership Cu ...

from the 66th district, which includes

Roswell, New Mexico Roswell () is a city in, and the County seat, seat of, Chaves County, New Mexico, Chaves County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Chaves County forms the entirety of the List of micropolitan areas in New Mexico, Roswell micropolitan area. As of ...

Early life

Anderson was born and raised in

, the son of oil magnate

Robert Orville Anderson Robert Orville Anderson (April 12, 1917 – December 2, 2007) was an American businessman, art collector, and philanthropist who founded Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO). Anderson also supported several cultural organizations, from the Los Angel ...

Career

Prior to entering politics, Anderson worked as a businessman, managing his family's investment in oil and real estate. He was first elected to the

in 1976 and served until 1980. Anderson was an unsuccessful candidate for

New Mexico's 2nd congressional district New Mexico's 2nd congressional district serves the southern half of New Mexico, including Las Cruces, Roswell, and the southern fourth of Albuquerque. Geographically, it is the fifth-largest district in the nation and the largest to not co ...

in 2002. He was elected to the New Mexico House of Representatives in 2018 and assumed office on January 15, 2019. In 2021, Anderson left the

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and registered as an

independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...

References

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