John T. Andrews

John Tuttle Andrews ( * May 29, 1803 at Schoharie Creek, New York, † June 11, 1894 in Dundee, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1837 and 1839 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Tuttle Andrews was born about nine years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Greene County. The family moved to Reading in 1813 at Dundee in Yates County. There he attended the district schools, but was also taught privately. He spent several years as a teacher at a school. Then he went in Irelandville Watkins and commercial transactions. He was justice of the peace in 1836 and 1837 and sheriff in Steuben County. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1836 for the 25th Congress Andrews was in the 27th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joshua Lee on March 4, 1837. Since he gave up for reelection in 1838, he retired after March 3, 1839, from from the Congress.

After his conference time he retired from active business and settled in Dundee. Between 1866 and 1877 he returned to commercial transactions. Then he retired again from its business activities back to worrying about his own private property. He died on 11 June 1894 in Dundee. His body was then buried in the Hillside Cemetery.