Andrew

Andrew, JOHN ALBION, an American statesman, was born at Windham, Maine, in 1818, studied law, and was admitted to the bar at Boston in 1840. Distinguished for his opposition to slavery, he was elected a member of legislature by the republicans of Boston in 1858; in 1860 he became governor of Massachusetts, and was four times re-elected, retiring in 1866. He acquired great popularity by his attention to the wants of the soldiers in the field, for his fervid eloquence and patriotism during the war, and his zeal for the liberation and the arming of the negroes. He died October 1867.