Charles Andrews (politician)

Charles Andrews (born February 11, 1814 in Paris , Massachusetts , † April 30, 1852 there ) was an American politician . Between 1851 and 1852 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Born in present-day Maine, Charles Andrews attended county schools in his home country and then Hebron Academy . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1837, he began in Turner in Androscoggin County to practice in this profession. He later moved back to Paris.

Andrews was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1839 and 1843 he was a member of the Maine House of Representatives , of which he was President in 1842. Between 1845 and 1848 Andrews was employed by the Oxford County Courts . In May 1848 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore , at which Lewis Cass was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In 1850, Andrews was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of Maine . There he succeeded Rufus K. Goodenow of the Whig Party on March 4, 1851 . He could not finish his term of office in Congress, which actually ran until March 3, 1853 , because he died on April 30, 1852.

Web links

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

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