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Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. (
February 12,
1873 -
June 3,
1936) was a
United States Representative from
Massachusetts.
Born in
La Porte, Indiana, he attended the public schools and the
Lawrenceville School. He graduated from
Princeton College in 1893, was a member of the
Harvard 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 at
Harvard University from 1900 to 1909. He was an expert assistant and editor of publications of the
National Monetary Commission from 1908 to 1911, and Director of the
United States Mint in 1909 and 1910. From 1910 to 1912 he was
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. He organized the
American Field Service and in December of 1914 sailed to France. He served in France continuously for four and a half years during the
First World War (first with the
French Army and later with the
United States Army.) He was commissioned a major in the
United States National Army in September 1917 and promoted to
lieutenant 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 of
Willfred 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 of
Princeton 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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