William E. Andrews

William Ezekiel Andrews ( * December 17, 1854 in Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa, † January 19, 1942 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1897, and again from 1919 to 1923, he was the fifth electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Andrews had already lost his parents early and grew up as an orphan. In the summer, he worked in agriculture and in the winter he attended the common schools. In 1874 he graduated from Simpson College in Indianola and 1875 the Parsons College in Fairfield. Then he himself began to work in the teaching profession. In 1879 he was elected school board in Ringgold County. He then joined the faculty of Hastings College in Nebraska, its vice- president, he was 1889. In 1890 he became president of the Teachers' Association of Nebraska.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1893 and 1894 he was private secretary of Lorenzo Crounse, then governor of Nebraska. In the congressional elections of 1892 ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Andrews U.S. House of Representatives. Two years later he was elected as a candidate but then his party in this parliament chamber and solved from there on March 4, 1895 William A. McKeighan. Since he was not confirmed in subsequent elections, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1897. He was succeeded by Roderick Dhu Sutherland, where he was defeated in the election.

Between 1897 and 1915, was William Andrews auditor in the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington. In the congressional elections of 1918 he was elected again to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he succeeded the Democrats Ashton Shallenberger on March 4, 1919. After a re-election in 1920, Andrews was able to complete two terms 1923 to March 3. From 1921 to 1923 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with the presidential elections. After he had lost in the elections of 1922 against Shallenberger, located Andrews withdrew from politics. He spent his life in Washington, where he died in 1942.