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Andrews Adolphus was born in Galveston in 1879.
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Andrews Adolphus
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Graduated from Annapolis in 1901.
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His presidential connections started with Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 when Dolly became junior naval aide. He commanded the presidential yacht Mayflower for Harding (1921-23) and was senior naval aide to Coolidge (1923-29). Meanwhile, in WWI he w'as XO of BB Mississippi, then commander of the old BB Massachusetts. Andrews then was assistant CofS to the navy’s commander in chief. He was the US representative at the 1927 Geneva Conference. In 1936 Andrews was acting secretary of the navy for several months. In 1938 he was chief of the Bureau of Navigation briefly before being promoted to vice admiral, then he became Commander Scouting Force.
On 10 Mar 1941 he took over as Commandant 3d Naval District, with headquarters in New York. President Roosevelt probably saved him from being the scapegoat for the burning of the Normandie,'’ Morison comments. When "Sea Frontiers” were created on 1 July 41. Andrews headed the North Naval Coastal Frontier, which on 6 Feb 1942 became the Eastern Sea Frontier. This was a scratch force deployed from Newfoundland to northern Florida. In the spring of 1942 he created the “Bucket Brigade." a scries of anchorages protected by antisubmarine nets. Next he developed the highly successful interlocking convoy system. “Monthly sinkings in the Eastern Sea Frontier in 1942 dropped off from 23 in April to 3 in July, and then to zero for the rest of 1942.” (Morison, 1, 257.)
On 11 Nov 1943 the elderly admiral became chairman of the Navy Manpower Survey Board, and in 1945 he was on the three-member naval court of inquiry into the Pearl Harbor disaster. Dolly Andrews died 19 June 1948 in Texas at the Houston naval hospital.
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March 10, 1941
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November 11, 1943