| LC control no. | n 85363531 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818-1867 |
| Variant(s) | Andrew, J. A. (John Albion), 1818-1867 |
| See also | Massachusetts. Governor (1861-1866 : Andrew) |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 18180531 |
| Death date | 18671030 |
| Place of birth | Windham (Me.) |
| Place of death | Boston (Mass.) |
| Affiliation | Bowdoin College Free Soil Party (Ashburnham, Mass.) Massachusetts. General Court American Land Company |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Governors |
| Found in | Memoir of Governor Andrew, 1880: p. 11 (John Albion Andrew) p. 12 (John A. Andrew) Harrison song. Written by J.A. Andrew, Esq., and sung at the opening of the Whig Republican Association of Cambridge, 1840. MoSU-L/NLT files (hdg.: Andrew, John Albion, 1818-1867; usage: John A. Andrew) Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass, accessed November 13, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Andrew, John Albion; abolitionist, state governor, organizer of black military units; born 31 May 1818 in Windham, Maine, United States; graduated from Bowdoin College (1837); active with the Young Whigs an antislavery splinter group that became the Free-Soil Party; served a term in the Massachusetts legislature (1857); head of the Massachusetts delegation to the Republican National Convention and supported Abraham Lincoln (1860); elected governor of Massachusetts; formed the Massachusetts-Kansas Committee to recruit blacks and raised three black regiments, two infantry and one cavalry (1862); was reelected (1864) but resigned (1866); formed the American Land Company (1865); died 30 October 1867 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States) John A. Andrew (1818-1867) was an abolitionist. |
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