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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsAbram Piatt ANDREW, Jr.
(1873-1936)
ANDREW, Abram Piatt, Jr.,
a Representative from Massachusetts; born in La Porte, La Porte
County, Ind., February 12, 1873; attended the public schools and
the Lawrenceville (N.J.) School; was graduated from Princeton
College in 1893; member of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences 1893-1898; pursued postgraduate studies in the
Universities of Halle, Berlin, and Paris; moved to Gloucester,
Mass., and was instructor and assistant professor of economics at
Harvard University 1900-1909; expert assistant and editor of
publications of the National Monetary Commission 1908-1911;
director of the Mint 1909 and 1910; Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury 1910-1912; 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; commissioned major, United
States National Army, in September 1917 and promoted to lieutenant
colonel in September 1918; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Willfred W. Lufkin; reelected to the Sixty-eighth
and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from September 27,
1921, until his death; delegate to the Republican National
Conventions in 1924 and 1928; member of the board of trustees of
Princeton University 1932-1936; died in Gloucester, Mass., June 3,
1936; remains were cremated and the ashes scattered from an
airplane flying over his estate at Eastern Point, Gloucester,
Mass.
Bibliography
Andrew, Abram Piatt. Diary of Abram Piatt Andrew, 1902-1914.
Transcribed and edited by E. Parker Hayden, Jr. and Andrew L. Gray.
Princeton, N.J.: 1986.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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