Sherlock James Andrews (November 17, 1801 – February 11, 1880), was an American lawyer and congressman.

Life

He was born in

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to Dr. John Andrews and Abigail Atwater. He graduated from

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, in 1821 and studied law at Yale. He married Ursula McCurdy Allen on December 1, 1828, and settled in

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. He was an intricate part of the early development of Cleveland as the first president of the city council and the public library board. He advocated for and promoted the building of the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railway. In 1840 he was elected to the

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on the Whig platform. In 1842 health issues compelled him not to seek nomination for a second term. He was appointed Judge of the superior court of Cleveland which he served from 1848 to 1850. Lost election in 1851 to the

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. He was a delegate in the Ohio constitutional convention from 1850 to 1851. In 1859 at

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he was one of the attorneys defending the men who rescued John Price from "slave catchers". His political career ended serving as a delegate on the constitutional convention of 1873. He was United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio in 1867.

References

Sources

*"Andrews, Sherlock James." ''Dictionary of American Biography.'' Vol. 1, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1928. * *

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrews, Sherlock James 1801 births 1880 deaths People from Wallingford, Connecticut American people of English descent Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio Ohio Republicans Politicians from Cleveland Lawyers from Cleveland Ohio Constitutional Convention (1850) Ohio Constitutional Convention (1873) United States Attorneys for the Northern District of Ohio Union College (New York) alumni Yale Law School alumni 19th-century American lawyers