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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkWalter Gresham ANDREWS
(1889-1949)
ANDREWS, Walter Gresham, a
Representative from New York; born in Evanston, Cook County, Ill.,
July 16, 1889; moved with his parents to Buffalo, N.Y., in 1902;
attended the public schools of Buffalo, N.Y.; was graduated from
the Lawrenceville (N.J.) Academy in 1908 and from the law
department of Princeton University, in 1913; coach of the Princeton
University football team in 1913 and 1915; served on the Mexican
border as a private, Troop I, First New York Cavalry, in 1916;
commissioned second lieutenant, Machine Gun Group, First New York
Cavalry, in 1917; served in France with the One Hundred and Seventh
United States Infantry, Twenty-seventh Division; promoted to major;
superintendent and central sales manager, Pratt & Lambert,
Inc., Buffalo, N.Y., 1914-1925; supervisor of the fifteenth federal
census for the seventh district of New York in 1929 and 1930;
director of the Buffalo General Hospital; elected as a Republican
to the Seventy-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March
4, 1931-January 3, 1949); chairman, Committee on Armed Services
(Eightieth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1948;
died at Daytona Beach, Fla., March 5, 1949; interment in Old Fort
Niagara Cemetery, Youngstown, N.Y.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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