ABRAM PIATT ANDREW, JR.
Andrew, Abram Piatt, Jr. (1873-1936), 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.
Parents: Abram Piatt Andrew, Helen Merrill
Sources:
United States Federal Census The Political Graveyard
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