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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2023 - 2024
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | April 24, 2024 01:29 PM |
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| From: | Representative Rich Irvin |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Special Agent Terry R. Anderson Memorial Highway |
| In the near future, I will be introducing legislation designating a portion of U.S. Route 522 in Shade Gap Borough, Huntingdon County, as the Special Agent Terry R. Anderson Memorial Highway. Terry Ray Anderson was born in Washington, Iowa, on January 19th, 1924. He attended college at Drake University and the University of Notre Dame. Special Agent Anderson enlisted in the Marine Corps his sophomore year of college during World War II, serving for two years being discharged as a lieutenant. He would return to Iowa in 1947 and teach history at Dallas Center High School, where he coached football, basketball, and track. Special Agent Anderson joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1951. After joining the FBI, he spent his first year in the FBI’s Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, offices, and was later assigned to the Philadelphia Division in January 1952, serving in the main office for four years before being assigned as a resident agent in Harrisburg. He lived in Cumberland County with his wife and four children and continued to be active in local youth sports programs. On May 17th, 1966, Special Agent Anderson was shot and killed in the line of duty while pursuing a kidnapped victim and her abductor in the rugged mountain terrain near Shade Gap, Huntingdon County. The kidnapped victim was later rescued, and the abductor killed on May 18th, 1966. Special Agent Anderson was laid to rest at the Elm Grove Cemetery in his hometown of Washington, Iowa. I hope you will consider sponsoring this legislation and join me in honoring the heroic Special Agent Terry R. Anderson. |
Introduced as HB2349