John Albion Andrew

Birth Date

1818-05-31

Death Date

1867-10-30

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Massachusetts, governor. Windham, Maine, native. Son of Jonathan Andrew and Nancy Green Pierce Andrew. Married to Eliza Jane Hersey Andrew in Hingham, Massachusetts, on December 25, 1848. Father of Charles Albion Andrew, John F. Andrew, Elizabeth Andrew, Edith Andrew, and Henry Andrew. Graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, in August 1837. Admitted to the bar in Massachusetts in 1840. Attorney in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1840. Member of the Anti-Slavery Party of Massachusetts, by which he was elected to the state legislature. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1859. Delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860. Governor of Massachusetts from January 6, 1861, to January 6, 1866.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Boston Ward 06, p. 749. Massachusetts, State Census, 1865, Suffolk County, Boston Ward 6, vol. 32, roll #29 (accessed via ancestry.com). Henry Greenleaf Pearson, The Life of John A. Andrew Governor of Massachusetts 1861-1865, vol. 1 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904), 1-2, 22, 25, 50, 54, 69, 111-12, William T. Davis, Bench and Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in Two Volumes, vol. 1 (Boston: The Boston History Company, 1895), 174-75. “Obituary: Ex-Gov. John A. Andrew, of Massachusetts,” The New York Times, October 31, 1867, p.4.

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