Andrew C. McLaughlin

Andrew C. McLaughlin

Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin (1861 in Beardstown, Illinois – 1947) was an American historian of Scottish immigrant parents. He received his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Michigan. By 1903 he was a respected historian and in 1914 he was President of the American Historical Association. He became an advocate for historians giving guidance on world events and toured the United Kingdom to support its efforts in World War I. His "A Constitutional History of the United States" won the 1936 Pulitzer Prize for History. [cite web| url=http://marklogic.lib.uchicago.edu:8002/view.xqy?id=ICU.SPCL.MCLAUGHLIN&c=m| title=Guide to the Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin Papers| publisher=Special collections University of Chicago| accessdate=2008-02-02]

His brother, James C. McLaughlin, was a U.S. Representative from Michigan from 1907-1932. He was the son-in-law of longtime University of Michigan president James B. Angell, having married Angell's daughter Lois in 1890. His daughter Constance Green was also a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, and his son James Angell MacLachlan was a Harvard Law School professor and co-founder of the National Bankruptcy Conference.

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