John F. Andrew papers, 1861-1894.

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John F. Andrew papers, 1861-1894.

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Legal papers, political campaign papers, and correspondence of John F. Andrew, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts from 1889 to 1893. Andrew, the son of Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew, was a lawyer and Republican state legislator in the early 1880s, but he supported Democrat Grover Cleveland for president and in 1888 accepted the Democratic nomination for Congress. Andrew advocated several reform causes and was a member of the local Civil Service Reform Association. He corresponded with Edmund Wheelwright, George William Curtis, Henry Lee Higginson, Charles W. Eliot, and fellow Congressman Charles F. Crisp. Some of Andrew's letters were copied in a letter book between 1879 and 1887. Among the papers are materials relating to the planning and construction of street railroads in Boston.

4 boxes, 1 narrow box, and 1 vol. in a case

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