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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—AlabamaANDREWS, George William
(1906—1971)
ANDREWS, George William, (husband of Elizabeth Bullock Andrews), a Representative from Alabama; born in Clayton, Barbour County, Ala., December 12, 1906; attended the public schools; was graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1928; was admitted to the bar in 1928 and commenced practice in Union Springs, Ala.; district attorney for the third judicial circuit of Alabama 1931-1943; during the Second World War served as a lieutenant (jg.) in the United States Naval Reserve from January 1943 until his election to Congress, at which time he was serving at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry B. Steagall; reelected to the fourteen succeeding Congresses and served from March 14, 1944, until his death in Birmingham, Ala., December 25, 1971; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Union Springs, Ala.
United States. 92d Congress, 2d session, 1972. Memorial services held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States, together with tributes presented in eulogy of George W. Andrews, late a Representative from Alabama
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1972.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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