Background
Reddin Andrews was born in Louisiana Grange, Texas, on January 18, 1848.
Reddin Andrews was born in Louisiana Grange, Texas, on January 18, 1848.
In 1871, he graduated from Baylor University as a valedictorian. From 1871 to 1873, he attended the Greenville Seminary in Greenville, South Carolina.
He fought in the Confederacy as a scout and a courier during the American Civil War. He became a pastor in Navasota, Texas, and preached in Millican, Hempstead, Calvert, Tyler, Lampasas, Bastrop, Goodman, Webberville, Hillsboro, Woodbury, Rockwall and Lovelady. From 1871 to 1878, he was a Professor at Baylor University.
In 1878, he came the Principal of the Masonic Institute in Round Rock.
He was an editor to John B. Link"s Texas Baptist Herald. He served as President of Baylor University from 1885 to 1886, as it was merged with Waco University.
In 1889, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia to edit West.T. Martin"s Gospel Standard and Expositor. In 1892, he moved to Belton, Texas and worked for the People"s Party.
In 1907, he was the editor of Sword and Shield in Tyler.
In 1916, he moved to Lawton, Oklahoma, where he died in 1923.
In 1910, he ran for Governor as a socialist and lost to the Democratic nominee.
