Thomas Andrews (politician)

Thomas Hiram Andrews ( born March 22, 1953 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American politician of the Democratic Party.

Thomas Andrews made ​​in 1971 graduated from Oliver Ames High School in North Easton. He then continued his education at Bowdoin College in Brunswick ( Maine) continued and obtained in 1976 a Bachelor of Arts. Subsequently he worked as a director with the National Confederation of Disabled People (Maine Association of Handicapped Persons).

From 1983 to 1985 Andrews MP in the House of Representatives from Maine, after which he belonged between 1985 and 1990 at the Senate of Maine. Andrews was in 1990 elected as a Democrat to the 102nd Congress, where he succeeded against David F. Emery, and represented there in the U.S. House of Representatives the state of Maine January 3, 1991 to January 3, 1995. 1994, he did not run for election to the U.S. House of Representatives, but was trying to be elected to the Senate of the United States, succeeding George J. Mitchell; but he lost the Republican Olympia Snowe significantly. She received 60.2 percent of the vote, Andrews was only 36.4 percent.

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