William Noble Andrews

William Noble Andrews

William Noble Andrews (born November 13, 1876 in Hurlock , Dorchester County , Maryland , †  December 27, 1937 in Cambridge , Maryland) was an American politician . Between 1919 and 1921 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Andrews attended public schools in his home country as well as Dixon College . In 1898 he graduated from the Wesley Collegiate Institute in Dover ( Delaware ). After a subsequent law degree at the University of Maryland in Baltimore and his admission as a lawyer in 1903, he began to work in Cambridge in this profession. Between 1904 and 1911 he was a prosecutor in Dorchester County. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1914 he was elected to the Maryland House of Representatives; in 1918 and 1919 he was a member of the State Senate .

In the 1918 congressional election , Andrews was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Maryland , where he succeeded Jesse Price on March 4, 1919 . Since he was defeated by the Democrat Thomas Alan Goldsborough in 1920 , he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1921 . The 18th and 19th amendments to the Constitution were ratified in 1919 and 1920 . It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage .

After his time in the US House of Representatives, William Andrews practiced as a lawyer in Cambridge again. He died there on December 27, 1937.

Web links

• William Noble Andrews in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Noble Andrews in the database of Find a Grave (English)