| John A. Andrew |
Article Index for John A |
Website Links For John |
Information AboutJohn A. Andrew |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT JOHN ALBION ANDREW | |
| governors of massachusetts | |
| people of massachusetts in the american civil war | |
| people from maine | |
| 1818 births | |
| 1867 deaths | |
|
EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION John Albion Andrew was born in 1818 in Windham, Maine . His father, Jonathan Andrew, was a small trader and his mother, Nancy Green Pierce, was a teacher at Fryeburg Academy. John Albion was the eldest son. His mother died in 1832. Andrew entered Bowdoin College in 1833. Athough he was studious and popular with other students, he did not shine academically and was ranked near the lowest in his class. After his graduation, he moved to Boston to study law under Henry H. Fuller, with whom he became close friends. MARRIAGE, ADMISSION TO THE BAR AND FIRST INTEREST IN POLITICS Andrew married Eliza Jane Hersey of Hingham on Christmas evening, 1848. They had four children: John Forrester, born Nov. 26, 1850; Elizabeth Loring, born July 29, 1852; Edith, born April 5, 1854; Henry Hersey, born April 28, 1858. After his admission to the bar, Andrew joined the Whig party and began to support the anti-slavery movement. He was elected to as a Representative in the General Court in 1858. In 1860, he was elected governor of Massachusetts by a huge margin. GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS Andrew took office on January 2, 1861, on the eve of the Civil War, and he immediately began to ready the Massachusetts militia for duty. He also asked the Governors of Maine and New Hampshire to prepare for war. Andrew's strong feelings about emancipation are clearly expressed in the following quote from an 1862 speech: "I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world, but this I know, that I was never mean enough to despise any man because he was black." He left the office of Governor in 1865 and again took up the practice of law. DEATH He died in 1867 of Apoplexy after having Tea at his home in Boston, Massachusetts . He is buried in the Hingham (Old Ship) Cemetery in Hingham, Massachusetts . SOURCES Project Gutenberg's The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17723/17723-h/17723-h.htm |
|
|