William Henry Andrews

William Henry Andrews ( born January 14, 1846 in Youngsville, Warren County, Pennsylvania, † January 16, 1919 in Carlsbad, New Mexico ) was an American politician. Between 1905 and 1912 he represented the last delegate to the New Mexico Territory in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

William Andrews attended the common schools and then worked between 1880-1890 in trade in Cincinnati as well as in Meadville and Titusville. He also went into the railway business, in which he was to bring to the President of the Santa Fe Central Railway Company.

Political career

Andrews was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1889 and 1891 he was chairman of the party in Pennsylvania. From 1889 to 1893 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and, in 1895 he was elected to the State Senate. In 1900 he moved to the New Mexico Territory, where he devoted himself to mining in Sierra County. In his new home sat Andrews continued his political career. He soon became one of the leading politicians in the territory. Between 1903 and 1904 he was a member of the Territorial Government.

In the congressional elections of 1904, he was elected as a delegate of its territory in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he took over from the March 4, 1905 Bernard Shandon Rodey, against whom he had prevailed in the primaries of his party. After he was re-elected in 1906, 1908 and 1910 respectively, he could implement his mandate in Congress until January 7, 1912. On that day went out the mandate, because New Mexico had joined as a regular state of the United States. Andrews had invested heavily in this accession. In return he hoped for election to the U.S. Senate. However, this plan failed due to resistance within his party.

Further CV

Since 1912, Andrews was involved in the oil business in southern New Mexico. Meanwhile, there were allegations of Pennsylvania, where it was discovered that about $ 300,000 had disappeared in connection with Andrews ' railway company. His business was after 1912 with little success. He died penniless in 1919 and was buried in Titusville.