William Noble Andrews

William Noble Andrews ( born November 13, 1876 in Hurlock, Dorchester County, Maryland, † December 27, 1937 in Cambridge, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1921 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Andrews attended the common schools and the Dixon College. In 1898 he graduated from the Wesley Collegiate Institute in Dover (Delaware). After a subsequent law studies at the University of Maryland in Baltimore and his 1903 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Cambridge in this profession. Between 1904 and 1911 he was a prosecutor in Dorchester County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1914 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Maryland; in the years 1918 and 1919 he was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1918, Andrews was the first electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jesse Price on March 4, 1919. Since he Democrat Thomas Alan Goldsborough defeated in 1920, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1921. In the years 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages as well as the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives William Andrews practiced again as a lawyer in Cambridge. There he is on December 27, 1937, died.