Born in Iowa in 1909, Eugenie Anderson was a talented musician with dreams of becoming a concert pianist. She attended college in Iowa and Minnesota, where she met her husband, John Anderson. She became politically active as the result of a trip to Germany in 1937, where she saw the impact of totalitarianism firsthand. She later became politically active in the Democratic Party and served as the diplomatic envoy to Bulgaria for Pres. John F. Kennedy.
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