James McAndrews

James McAndrews ( born October 22, 1862 in Woonsocket, Rhode Iceland, † August 31, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1941 he represented several times the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James McAndrews attended the public schools of his home. He later moved to Chicago where he was, among other municipal commissioner for the construction industry ( Building Commissioner). At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the congressional elections of 1900 he was in the fourth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas Cusack on March 4, 1901. After a re-election in the fifth district, he could firstly undertake two terms in Congress until March 3, 1905.

Between 4 March 1913 and the March 3, 1921, followed by four successive terms in Congress as a representative of the sixth electoral district of his state. This period was, among other things, the First World War. During this time also the 16th, the 17th, the 18th and the 19.Verfassungszusatz ratified. In 1920, McAndrews was not re-elected.

After the end of his era in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked as a private businessman. In 1932 he applied unsuccessfully to make his return to the Congress. In the congressional elections of 1934, McAndrews was then elected to Congress again in the ninth district of Illinois, where he could spend 1941 three other legislative periods between January 1935 and January 3, 3. During this time most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1940 he was not re-affirmed. James McAndrews, died on 31 August 1942 in Chicago.