Abram Andrew

Abram Piatt Andrew (born February 12, 1873 in LaPorte , LaPorte County , Indiana , † June 3, 1936 in Gloucester , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1921 and 1936 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

A. Piatt Andrew attended the common schools and in Lawrenceville ( New Jersey ). In 1893 he graduated from Princeton College . Between 1893 and 1898 he was at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences . Andrew then traveled to Europe, where he studied at the universities of Halle , Berlin and Paris for a short time each. Between 1900 and 1909 he taught economics at Harvard University . He was also an associate editor and publisher of the National Monetary Commission's publications between 1908 and 1911 . In 1909 and 1910 he headed theUnited States Mint as director. He was then Deputy Secretary of the Treasury until 1912 . When the First World War broke out in Europe in 1914, he went to France to take part in the war on the French side. After the American entry into the war, he moved to the United States Army , in which he rose to lieutenant colonel.

Politically, Andrew joined the Republican Party . After the resignation of MP Willfred W. Lufkin , he was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the sixth seat of Massachusetts , where he took up his new mandate on September 27, 1921. After six re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on June 3, 1936 . The first of the Federal Government's New Deal laws were passed there under President Franklin D. Roosevelt since 1933 . In 1924 and 1928 he was a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions , at which Calvin Coolidge and later Herbert Hoover were nominated as presidential candidates. Since 1932 he was also a board member of Princeton University .

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personal data
SURNAME	Andrew, Abram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Andrew, Abram Piatt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 12, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	LaPorte , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH	June 3, 1936
Place of death	Gloucester , Massachusetts