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词条 Sherlock James Andrews
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  1. Life

  2. References

  3. Sources

  4. External links

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|name=Sherlock James Andrews
|image=Sherlock James Andrews 001.png
|state=Ohio
|district={{ushr|Ohio|15|15th}}
|term_start=March 4, 1841
|term_end=March 3, 1843
|preceded=John William Allen
|succeeded=Joseph Morris
|party={{plainlist |
  • Whig
  • Republican

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|birth_date={{birth date|1801|11|17}}
|death_date={{death date and age|1880|02|11|1801|11|17}}
|birth_place=Wallingford, Connecticut
|death_place=Cleveland, Ohio
|restingplace=
|alma_mater={{plainlist |
  • Union College
  • Yale Law School

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|-
|spouse=Ursula McCurdy
|children=five
|signature=Sherlock James Andrews signature.png
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Sherlock James Andrews (November 17, 1801 – February 11, 1880) lawyer and congressman.

Life

He was born in Wallingford, Connecticut to Dr. John Andrews and Abigail Atwater.

He graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1821 and studied law at Yale. He married Ursula McCurdy Allen on December 1, 1828 and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. He was an intricate part of the early development of Cleveland as the first president of the city council and the public library board. He advocated for and promoted the building of the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railway. In 1840 he was elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress on the Whig platform. In 1842 health issues compelled him not to seek nomination for a second term. He was appointed Judge of the superior court of Cleveland which he served from 1848 to 1850. Lost election in 1851 to the Ohio Supreme Court.[1] He was a delegate in the Ohio constitutional convention from 1850-1851. In 1859 at Wellington, Ohio he was one of the attorneys defending the men who rescued John Price from "slave catchers". His political career ended serving as a delegate on the constitutional convention of 1873.

He was United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio in 1867.[2]

References

1. ^{{cite book |title=Annual report of the Secretary of State to the Governor and General Assembly for the year 1875... |publisher=Ohio Secretary of State | year=1876 |page=115 |ref=bell1876|first=William, Jr.|last=Bell |authorlink=William Bell, Jr.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GbhXD5zfqQcC&pg=PA115}}
2. ^{{cite web |title=U.S. Attorney, Northern District of Ohio |publisher=United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit |url=http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/lib_hist/usAttorneys/ohio/NDOHusatt.html |accessdate=2012-01-19 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090513050320/http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/lib_hist/usAttorneys/ohio/NDOHusatt.html |archivedate=2009-05-13 |df= }}

Sources

  • "Andrews, Sherlock James." Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 1, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1928.
  • {{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Andrews, Sherlock James|year=1900 }}
  • {{CongBio|A000249}}

External links

  • {{findagrave|22445}}
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15 : People from Wallingford, Connecticut|Politicians from Cleveland|Members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio|Ohio Whigs|Ohio Constitutional Convention (1850)|Ohio Constitutional Convention (1873)|1801 births|1880 deaths|Union College (New York) alumni|Yale Law School alumni|Ohio Republicans|Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives|19th-century American politicians|Lawyers from Cleveland|United States Attorneys for the Northern District of Ohio

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