Andrew James Peters

Andrew James Peters ( born April 3, 1872 in Boston, Massachusetts, † June 26, 1938 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1914 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born in Boston's West Roxbury district of Andrew Peters attended the common schools and then studied until 1895 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree from the same university in 1897 and was admitted to his lawyer, he began to work in Boston in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1902 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; 1904-1905 he was a member of the State Senate. He also served five years in the National Guard of his state.

In the congressional elections of 1906, Peters was in the eleventh electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Andrew Sullivan on March 4, 1907. After three re- elections he could remain until his resignation on 15 August 1914 in Congress. During this time, the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

Between 1914 and 1917 Peter was deputy as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury U.S. Treasury. After that, he was from 1918 to 1922 as the successor of James Michael Curley Mayor of Boston. He then practiced as a lawyer again. In 1926 to 1928 he also served as president of the Chamber of Commerce of Boston. His reputation has been damaged by an affair with a relative of his wife, who died in 1931 under mysterious circumstances. Andrew Peters died on June 26, 1938 in Jamaica Plain.