- Abram Andrew
Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. (February 12, 1873 - June 3, 1936) was a
United States Representative fromMassachusetts .Born in
La Porte, Indiana , he attended the public schools and the Lawrenceville School. He graduated fromPrinceton College in 1893, was a member of theHarvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1893 to 1898, and pursued postgraduate studies in the Universities of Halle, Berlin, and Paris.He moved to
Gloucester, Massachusetts , and was instructor and assistant professor of economics atHarvard University from 1900 to 1909. He was an expert assistant and editor of publications of theNational Monetary Commission from 1908 to 1911, and Director of theUnited States Mint in 1909 and 1910. From 1910 to 1912 he wasAssistant Secretary of the Treasury . He organized theAmerican Field Service and in December 1914 sailed to France. He served in France continuously for four and a half years during theFirst World War (first with theFrench Army and later with theUnited States Army .) He was commissioned a major in theUnited States National Army in September 1917 and promoted tolieutenant colonel in September 1918.Andrew was elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-seventh United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofWillfred W. Lufkin ; he was reelected to the Sixty-eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from September 27, 1921, until his death.He was a delegate to the
Republican National Conventions in 1924 and 1928, and a member of the board of trustees ofPrinceton University from 1932 to 1936.He died in Gloucester; remains were cremated and the ashes scattered from an airplane flying over his estate at Eastern Point in Gloucester.
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