Landaff Andrews

Landaff Watson Andrews ( * February 12, 1803 in Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky, † December 23, 1887 ) was an American politician. Between 1839 and 1843 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Landaff Andrews attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree from Transylvania University in Lexington and his 1826 was admitted to the bar he began in Flemingsburg to work in this profession. From 1829 to 1839 he was a prosecutor in Fleming County. Politically, he was a member of the Whig party. Between 1834 and 1838 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky.

In the congressional elections of 1838, Andrews was the eleventh electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Richard Menefee on March 4, 1839. After a re-election in 1840 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1843 two legislative sessions. This period was characterized by the tensions between President John Tyler and the Whigs. It was also at that time already been discussed about a possible annexation of the independent Republic of Texas since 1836 by Mexico.

In the 1842 elections Andrews defeated Democrat Frank Lane Wolford. In 1857 he was elected as an independent candidate in the Senate from Kentucky. Between 1861 and 1862 he was again a deputy in the House of Representatives of his State. Thereafter, he served from 1862 to 1868 as a district judge, before he again practiced as a private attorney. Landaff Andrews died on 23 December 1887 in his birthplace Flemingsburg.