请输入您要查询的百科知识:

 

词条 Mark Andrews (politician)
释义

  1. Life and career

  2. See also

  3. Further reading

  4. References

  5. External links

{{Infobox Senator | name=Mark Andrews
| nationality=American
| image name=Mark Andrews, US Senator from North Dakota.jpg
| jr/sr=United States Senator
| state=North Dakota
| party=Republican
| term_start=January 3, 1981
| term_end=January 3, 1987
| preceded=Milton Young
| succeeded=Kent Conrad
| state2=North Dakota
| district2= {{ushr|ND|AL|At-large}}
| term_start2=January 3, 1973
| term_end2=January 3, 1981
| preceded2= Constituency established
| succeeded2=Byron Dorgan
| state3=North Dakota
| district3=1st
| term_start3=October 22, 1963
| term_end3=January 3, 1973
| preceded3=Hjalmar Nygaard
| succeeded3=Constituency abolished
| birth_date={{birth date and age|1926|5|19}}
| birth_place=Cass County, North Dakota, U.S.
| death_date=
| death_place=
| spouse=
| alma_mater=North Dakota State University
}}

Mark Andrews (born May 19, 1926) is an American politician from the state of North Dakota. He is a member of the United States Republican Party.

Life and career

Andrews was born in Cass County, North Dakota, where he attended public school. In 1944 at the age of 18, Andrews was admitted to the United States Military Academy. He quit in 1946 after receiving a disability discharge. He then attended North Dakota State University at Fargo, North Dakota, where he became a member of the Gamma Tau Chapter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, and graduated in 1949.

Andrews then became a farmer. During the 1950s he began to enter politics, serving on farmers' organizations and Republican committees. In 1962, Andrews ran for Governor of North Dakota, losing to incumbent William L. Guy by just 2,000 votes out of over 228,500 cast.[1] The next year, he became the Republican candidate for a seat in the United States House of Representatives from North Dakota when a special election was required after the death of congressman Hjalmar Nygaard. Andrews won the election. He was reelected to a full term in 1964 and served in the House until 1981, being re-elected every two years.

In 1980 Andrews decided not to run for re-election to the House. Instead, he ran for one of North Dakota's seats in the United States Senate which was being vacated by the long-serving Republican Milton Young who announced that he would not run for reelection and retire after the election. Andrews won the election with 70% of the vote and served in the Senate for one term, from 1981 to 1987. He was chairman of the select committee on Indian affairs from 1983 to 1987. He had a moderate-to-liberal voting record for most of his Congressional career.

Andrews was defeated for re-election in 1986 by Democratic-NPL Tax Commissioner Kent Conrad by a mere 2,120 votes in what is still considered an upset. Andrews retired from elective politics. He started a consultancy firm in Washington, D.C. but currently lives in Mapleton, North Dakota. Grand Forks International Airport in Grand Forks, North Dakota has sometimes been called Mark Andrews International Airport after him, but usage of the name has dropped out of popularity.

He was the last Republican to serve in Congress from North Dakota from the end of his term in 1987 until the election of Rick Berg to the House and John Hoeven to the Senate in 2010.

See also

  • 1980 United States Senate election in North Dakota
  • 1986 United States Senate election in North Dakota

Further reading

  • Richard F. Fenno, Jr.: When Incumbency fails : the Senate Career of Mark Andrews, Congressional Quarterly Press, 1992.

References

1. ^Our Campaigns - ND Governor - Nov 06, 1962

External links

{{CongBio|A000208}}
  • {{C-SPAN|markandrews}}
{{s-start}}{{s-par|us-hs}}{{USRepSuccessionBox
| state=North Dakota
| district=1
| before=Hjalmar Carl Nygaard
| reason=Elected statewide at-large
| years=1963–1973}}{{USRepSuccessionBox
| state=North Dakota
| district=AL
| new=district
| after=Byron Dorgan
| years=1973–1981}}{{s-par|us-sen}}{{U.S. Senator box
| state=North Dakota
| class=3
| before=Milton R. Young
| after=Kent Conrad
| years=1981 – 1987
| alongside=Quentin N. Burdick}}{{s-off}}{{succession box
| title=Chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee
| before=William Cohen
| after=Daniel Inouye
| years=1983 – 1987}}{{s-end}}{{USSenND}}{{SenIndianAffairsCommitteeChairmen}}{{NorthDakotaUSRepresentatives}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Andrews, Mark}}

13 : 1926 births|Farmers from North Dakota|Living people|Members of the United States House of Representatives from North Dakota|North Dakota Republicans|North Dakota State University alumni|People from Cass County, North Dakota|Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives|Republican Party United States Senators|United States Senators from North Dakota|United States Military Academy alumni|University of North Dakota alumni|20th-century American politicians

随便看

 

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

 

Copyright © 2023 OENC.NET All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/11/13 0:45:48