James McAndrews (October 22, 1862 – August 31, 1942) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, McAndrews attended the common schools. He moved to

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, and engaged in business, serving as building commissioner of Chicago. McAndrews was elected as a

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to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1905). He was then elected to the Sixty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1921). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress, and instead resumed his business activities. He was also an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress. McAndrews was elected to the Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Congresses (January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1941). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress. He died in

, and was interred in Calvary Cemetery,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:McAndrews, James 1862 births 1942 deaths People from Woonsocket, Rhode Island Politicians from Chicago Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois Burials at Calvary Cemetery (Evanston, Illinois) 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives