Jack Andrews

Infobox Politician
name = Rt. Hon. Sir Jack Andrews, DL, KBE


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birth_date =15 July 1903
birth_place =
death_date =12 January 1986
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party = Ulster Unionist Party
religion = Protestant
office = Minister in the Senate of the
Government of Northern Ireland
term_start=7th August 1964|term_end=30th March 1972
office2 = Deputy Prime Minister of
Northern Ireland
term_start2=3rd May 1969
term_end2=30th March 1972
office3 = Member of the
Northern Ireland House of Commons
term_start3 = 1953|term_end3 = 1964
constituency3 =Mid Down
office4 = Member of the
Senate of Northern Ireland
term_start4 = 1964|term_end4 = 1972
father = John Miller Andrews

Sir John Lawson Ormrod Andrews DL KBE (15 July 1903 – 12 January 1986), widely known as "Jack Andrews" or "J L O Andrews", was a member of both the Northern Ireland House of Commons and the Senate of Northern Ireland.

Son of Prime Minister John Miller Andrews he entered Parliament as MP for Mid Down in 1953 replacing his father, a seat which he represented until his resignation in 1964, when he was elected to the Senate where he sat until the Parliament was suspended in 1972. His election to the senate was following a cabinet reshuffle, in which Andrews accepted demotion to the politically unimportant position of Government Minister in the Senate.

He held several Cabinet positions including Minister in the Senate from 1964 and Deputy Prime Minister from May 1969. He was a contender for the position of Prime Minister on the retirement of Lord Brookeborough, however when it became clear that Terence O'Neill had a comfortable lead over both Andrews and Brian Faulkner in the Parliamentary Party, no contest was held. In 1969 he was approached by O'Neill to succeed him, however he refused and James Chichester-Clark was elected

During the 1970 Bannside and South Antrim by-elections, Andrews was at the centre of the UUP's pluralist campaign against Ian Paisley's Protestant Unionism, declaring "What does Protestant Unionism mean? Does it mean that you have to put a sign over the door of the Unionist Party saying "Protestants only"?"

Andrews was knighted in 1973 and died in 1986.

References

*Ireland since 1939, Henry Patterson (2001, Oxford University Press)
*A history of the Ulster Unionist Party, Graham Walker (2004, Manchester University Press)
*Memoirs of a statesman, Brian Faulkner (1978, Weidenfeld and Nicolson)