William E. Andrews

William E. Andrews, 1896

William Ezekiel Andrews (born December 17, 1854 in Oskaloosa , Mahaska County , Iowa , † January 19, 1942 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1897 and again from 1919 to 1923 he represented the fifth constituency of the state of Nebraska in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Andrews lost his parents at an early age and grew up as an orphan. In summer he worked in agriculture and in winter he attended public schools in his home country. In 1874 he graduated from Simpson College in Indianola and in 1875 Parsons College in Fairfield . Then he began to work in the school service himself. In 1879 he was elected to the Ringgold County School Council. He then became a faculty member at Hastings College in Nebraska, where he became vice president in 1889. In 1890, he became president of the Nebraska Teachers' Association.

Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party . In 1893 and 1894 he was the private secretary of Lorenzo Crounse , the then governor of Nebraska. In the congressional election of 1892 Andrews ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US House of Representatives. Two years later he was elected as a candidate for his party in this Chamber of Parliament and replaced William A. McKeighan on March 4, 1895 . But since he was not confirmed in the subsequent elections, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1897 . There he was replaced by Roderick Dhu Sutherland , to whom he was defeated in the election.

Between 1897 and 1915, William Andrews was an auditor at the US Treasury Department in Washington . In the congressional elections of 1918 he was re-elected to the US House of Representatives, where he succeeded the Democrat Ashton Shallenberger on March 4, 1919 . After a re-election in 1920, Andrews was able to complete two terms until March 3, 1923. From 1921 to 1923 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with the presidential elections. After losing to Shallenberger in the 1922 election, Andrews retired from politics. He spent the rest of his life in Washington, where he died on January 19, 1942.

Web links

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

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