John Alfred Andrew III

Background

John Alfred Andrew III was born on January 16, 1943, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of John A. Jr. and Deborah M. Andrew.

Education

Andrew received his education at the University of New Hampshire, graduating from it with bachelor's degree in 1965 and then with master's degree in 1967. He also received his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin in 1973.

Career

Andrew started his career as a high school social studies teacher and department head in Lancaster in 1966. Two years later, he became a lecturer in Evening Division at the University of Texas at Austin and then was appointed as an assistant instructor in history.

From 1973 and till his last days, Andrew served at Franklin and Marshall College, where he first taught as an assistant professor, then as an associate and from 1990, as a professor of history.

Achievements

• The late John A. Andrew was a writer and history professor who specialized, as he once commented, "in primary sources through archival research." His chief interest lay in the exploration and explanation of social movements and social and political change in the United States. The author of numerous journal articles as well as five books, Andrew focused on both nineteenth-and twentieth-century America. His major works include such books as Rebuilding the Christian Commonwealth: New England Congregationalists and Foreign Missions, From Revivals to Removal: Jeremiah Evarts, the Cherokee Nation, and the Search for the Soul of America, The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics, Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society, and Power to Destroy: The Political Uses of the IRS from Kennedy to Nixon.
  
  During his career, Andrew was a contributor of more than seventy-five articles and reviews to history journals, including Journal of Presbyterian History, Journal of American Studies, Viet Nam Generation, Historian, Choice, and Presidential Studies Quarterly.
  
  The John A. Andrew III Scholarship Fund was established in honour of Andrew by Franklin and Marshall College.

Works

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  • Power to Destroy: The Political Uses of the IRS from Kennedy to Nixon

    (Beginning with the Kennedy administration's Ideological O...)

    2002
  • Rebuilding the Christian Commonwealth

    (In this book, Andrew holds that the Congregational clergy...)

    1976
  • The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics

    (The author uncovers the Kennedy administration's use of t...)

    1997
  • From Revivals to Removal: Jeremiah Evarts, the Cherokee Nation, and the Search for the Soul of America

    (A missionary, reformer, and activist, Jeremiah Evarts (17...)

    1992
  • Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society

    (In this narrative analysis, Mr. Andrew examines the under...)

    1998

Politics

Andrew served as Democratic party chair in Lancaster from 1989 to 1994.

Membership

Andrew was a member of the American Association of University Professors, Organization of American Historians, American Studies Association, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Mid-Atlantic American Studies Association, Pennsylvania Historical Association, Phi Alpha Theta, Pi Sigma Alpha and Pi Gamma Mu.

Interests

• Sports, politics

Connections

Andrew was married in September 1966. His wife's name is Roz. The couple had 2 children, John F. and Lea W.

Father:

John A. Jr. Andrew

Mother:

Deborah M. Andrew

Wife:

Roz Andrew

Son:

John F. Andrew

Daughter:

Lea W. Andrew