Researching George Andrews

During the Civil War, Andrews served in a number of important commands, first as the colonel of the 2nd Massachusetts, a regiment which saw heavy action in the Battles of Cedar Mountain and Antietam, among other actions. Mentored by Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Prentice Banks, Andrews became part of Banks's staff and was assigned several command roles in the Army Department of the Gulf during the later years of the war.

After the war, Andrews pursued a variety of vocations, including service as a United States Marshal, before returning to the United States Military Academy at West Point as a professor until his retirement.

He was elected as a Liberal Unionist to the House of Commons of Canada in 1917 to represent the riding of Winnipeg Centre. He became an independent on June 2, 1919 when he withdrew from the Unionist government due to its handling of he Winnipeg General strike. He was defeated in the 1921 election.

During World War I, he served overseas as a major for the 90th Rifles.

Andrews graduated from Princeton University (B.A., 1953) and the Universite de Strasbourg in France (M.A., 1954). He was born February 26, 1932, in Havana, Cuba, of American parents. Andrews entered the United States Foreign Service in 1954 as consular officer in Hamburg. He then served in Paris as a consular officer from 1956–1958, and political officer from 1958 - 1959. In the U.S. State Department he was a personnel officer from 1959–1962 and desk officer for Belgium and Luxembourg (1962–1964).

He was political officer in Stockholm from 1964–1967, chief of the political section in Dakar (1967–1970), chargé d'affaires in Conakry (1970), and consul general in Strasbourg (1970–1971). In 1971 until 1974 he was Deputy Assistant and Deputy Chief of the Mission in Guatemala from 1974 - 1978. He attended the executive seminar in national and international affairs at the Foreign Service Institute from 1978 - 1979. In 1979 - 1983 he was chief of senior officers personnel in the Bureau of Personnel in the Department.

He was a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, with a Class of Minister-Counselor. His foreign languages include French, Spanish, German, and Swedish.

He made his Broadway debut as Frid in the original production of A Little Night Music, and later appeared in the original productions of On the Twentieth Century; Merlin, and The Phantom of the Opera, and in the revival of Evita. He returned to A Little Night Music in 1990, this time in the leading role of Frederick Egerman at the New York City Opera.

Born in Vermont, Andrews was appointed to the Tennessee Supreme Court by Governor William G. Brownlow in 1868. Andrews was one of the judges serving on the highly partisan "apocryphal" court, which was in place in Tennessee between the end of the American Civil War and the enactment of the Constitution of 1870. The justices who served on this court "without exception, were bitter partisans" who "had all been Union men, and... took the partisan view of all questions growing out of the war". Of this group, Andrews is described as one of only two "who were men of talent, and were good lawyers", the other being Samuel Milligan.

He later served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tennessee.

Andrews was killed in a train wreck in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1889, along with several other prominent men.

Born in England, he was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was appointed Dean of Limerick and Precentor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1603.

His promotion in 1635 to Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin was reputed a dubious honor, considering the low income of that see. The Lord Deputy of Ireland (the Earl of Strafford) is said to have written to Archbishop Laud: "If your Lordship thinks Dean Andrew hath been to blame, and that you would chastise him for it, make him Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, to have it without any other commendams; and then, I assure you, he shall leave better behind him than will be recompensed out of that bishopric, which is one of the meanest of the whole kingdom."

He died in October 1648 and is buried at St Clement Danes in the City of Westminster, London.