Cecil D. Andrus

Cecil D. Andrus (undated)

Cecil Dale Andrus (born August 25, 1931 in Hood River , Oregon - † August 24, 2017 in Boise , Idaho ) was an American politician who was Secretary of the Interior of the United States under President Jimmy Carter . He was also Governor of Idaho twice for a total of four terms .

Career

Andrus studied at Oregon State University and served in the United States Navy from 1951 to 1955 . He then moved to Orofino , Idaho. There he joined the Democrats and was elected to the State Senate in 1960, 1962 and 1964 .

In 1966 Andrus wanted to run for governor , but narrowly lost the intra-party primaries against Charles Herndon. After his death in a plane crash, Andrus moved up, but lost the gubernatorial election against the Republican Don Samuelson . In 1986 he was re-elected to the Idaho Senate.

In 1970 Andrus went back to governor elections, this time winning against Samuelson. In the 1974 election he was able to successfully defend his position against Jack M. Murphy . From 1976 to 1977 Andrus was chairman of the National Governors Association . In January 1977 he stepped down to serve in the cabinet of newly elected President Jimmy Carter, the 42nd Secretary of the Interior of the United States. His Democratic successor, John V. Evans , was re-elected twice and remained governor until 1987.

As Home Secretary, Andrus was responsible for the National Wilderness Preservation System . During his tenure, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act was passed . After the end of Carter's presidency, Andrus returned to Idaho in 1981.

After a few years without political office, Andrus was re-elected governor of Idaho in 1986 and was re-elected in 1990 in the subsequent election. In 1994 he stopped taking part; with Phil Batt , a Republican was elected to succeed him. As governor as well as minister of the interior, Andrus has rendered outstanding services to the preservation and protection of nature, initiated actions that continue to this day and repeatedly rejected the storage of nuclear waste in his state. This makes him the most important governor in Idaho's history and, at 14, had the longest term in office. Still, Andrus has been the last governor of the Democratic Party so far.

In 1995 he founded the Andrus Center for Public Policy at Boise State University , and in 1998 he published his memoir.

Andrus died in Boise, Idaho the day before his 86th birthday.

Works

Cecil Andrus, Joel Connelly: Cecil Andrus: Politics Western Style . Sasquatch Books, Seattle 1998, ISBN 978-1-57061-122-3 .

Web links

Commons : Cecil D. Andrus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Andrus Center for Public Policy at Boise State University (English)
• Cecil Andrus in the National Governors Association (English)
• Cecil D. Andrus , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 03/1982 of January 11, 1982, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Cecil D. Andrus in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)

Individual evidence

1. Jump up ↑ Marissa Morrison: Former Democratic Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus dies at 85 . KIVI-TV , August 25, 2017, accessed on August 25, 2017 (English).