[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 106 (Friday, July 31, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1495]
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                 TRIBUTE TO ADMIRAL WILLIAM R. ANDERSON

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                             HON. ED BRYANT

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 30, 1998

  Mr. BRYANT. Mr. Speaker, on Monday, August 3, the day will mark the 
40th anniversary of a great feat in U.S. Naval history when Columbia, 
TN resident and former Congressman, Adm. William R. Anderson, led a 
expedition to the Earth's polar ice cap.
  William Robert Anderson was born on June 17, 1921, in Bakersville, 
TE. He attended Columbia Military Academy before entering the U.S. 
Naval Academy and graduated in the class of 1943. He is a graduate of 
the Submarine School and sailed on 11 war patrols during World War II. 
Anderson saw action in the Korean Theater from January to May 1954, 
aboard the U.S.S. Wahoo as commander.
  On April 30, 1957, he took command of the U.S.S. Nautilus, the first 
atomic powered submarine. The Nautilus made the first voyage in history 
from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the North Pole.
  The Nautilus departed Pearl Harbor, HI on July 23, 1958, under top 
secret orders to conduct ``Operation Sunshine'' the first crossing of 
the North Pole by a ship. At 11:15 p.m. on August 3, 1958, Nautilus 
second commanding officer, Commander William R. Anderson, announced to 
his crew ``For the world, our country and the Navy--the North Pole.'' 
With 116 men aboard, the Nautilus had accomplished the impossible--
reaching the geographic North Pole, 90 degrees north.
  In July, 1962, following 3 years of Washington duty on the staffs of 
Adm. H.G. Rickover and three Secretaries of the Navy, he retired with 
20 years service to enter politics. In 1963, he was named consultant to 
the late President John F. Kennedy for the National Service Corps. He 
was elected to the House of Representatives, 89th Congress, in November 
1964.
  Anderson served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1964 
through 1970. His best known legislative achievement is his authorship 
and promotion of the law enforcement education bill. It is opened broad 
opportunities for specialized higher education in Police and 
Corrections careers.

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