Get to know the newly-retired city councilor who served for about one-third of Sapulpa’s entire existence

He’s attended over 1,180 city council, committee, and community meetings, has been awakened at all times of the night to help quell community problems, has been called out of his day job to deal with city issues, and even sustained a potentially-fatal shooting as a result of intervening after witnessing some men smoking marijuana at the Booker T. Washington Recreation Center in 1976.

When John Anderson moved to Sapulpa, he never thought he’d become a city councilor (or commissioner, as it was known then), let alone the one with the longest-running tenure in the history of the Sapulpa City Council.