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from 1995 to 1999. He served with DNC General Chairman

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. Asked to serve by President

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, Andrew became, at the age of 39, one of the youngest chairpersons in the history of the DNC. He later served as chairman of the

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, and in 2006 helped to found The Blue Fund, a mutual fund which invests in companies that contribute to Democratic campaigns. He now serves as the global chairman of Dentons, the world's largest law firm. Andrew was considered to be a candidate for

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in 2004, but he decided against it after Joe Kernan announced that he would run. During the 2008 Democratic presidential nominating contest he was one of the first to endorse Senator

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in November 2007. However, on May 1, 2008, he switched his endorsement to Senator

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. Andrew, a native of Fort Wayne,

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, graduated from

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in 1982 and

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in 1985. While at Yale, he served as editor-in-chief of the Yale University literary review. Shortly after law school, he began his career in politics working on Democratic campaigns. He worked as the campaign manager for attorney Jack Wickes during the

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. He also served as campaign advisor to Secretary of State of Indiana Joseph H. Hogsett, whose term was from 1989-1994.

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