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69th Congress Pictorial Directory, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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ANDREW, Abram Piatt, Jr., a Representative from Massachusetts; born in La Porte, La Porte
County, Ind., February 12, 1873; attended the public schools and the
Lawrenceville (N.J.) School; was graduated from Princeton College in 1893;
member of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1893-1898; pursued
postgraduate studies in the Universities of Halle, Berlin, and Paris; moved to
Gloucester, Mass., and was instructor and assistant professor of economics at
Harvard University 1900-1909; expert assistant and editor of publications of
the National Monetary Commission 1908-1911; director of the Mint 1909 and 1910;
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury 1910-1912; served in France continuously
for four and a half years during the First World War, first with the French
Army and later with the United States Army; commissioned major, United States
National Army, in September 1917 and promoted to lieutenant colonel in
September 1918; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of Willfred W. Lufkin; reelected to the
Sixty-eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from September 27,
1921, until his death; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1924
and 1928; member of the board of trustees of Princeton University 1932-1936;
died in Gloucester, Mass., June 3, 1936; remains were cremated and the ashes
scattered from an airplane flying over his estate at Eastern Point, Gloucester,
Mass.
BibliographyAndrew, Abram Piatt.
Diary of Abram Piatt Andrew, 1902-1914. Transcribed and edited
by E. Parker Hayden, Jr. and Andrew L. Gray. Princeton, N.J.:
1986.
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