| LC control no. | n 85389277 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Andrews, Charles Oscar, 1877-1946 |
| Birth date | 1877-03-07 |
| Death date | 1946-09-18 |
| Place of birth | Ponce de Leon (Fla.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | Florida. National Guard Florida. Legislature. Senate Florida. Legislature. Senate Florida. Attorney General Florida Real Estate Commission Florida. Legislature. House of Representatives United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers Judges |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Univ. of Fla., P.K. Yonge Lib. for His Papers, 1936-1946 (Charles Oscar Andrews, 1877-1946; senator from Florida, 1936-1946) LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Andrews, Charles Oscar, 1877-1946) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed May 24, 2018 (Andrews, Charles Oscar, a Senator from Florida; born in Ponce de Leon, Holmes County, Fla., March 7, 1877; attended the public schools and the South Florida Military Institute at Bartow, Fla.; graduated from the Florida State Normal School at Gainesville, Fla., in 1901 and the University of Florida at Gainesville in 1907; during the Spanish-American War served in the Florida National Guard; captain in the Florida National Guard 1903-1905; secretary of the Florida State senate 1905-1907 and 1909-1911; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1907 and commenced practice in De Funiak Springs, Fla.; judge of the criminal court of record of Walton County, Fla. 1910-1911; assistant attorney general of Florida 1912-1919; circuit judge of the seventeenth judicial circuit 1919-1925; general counsel of the Florida Real Estate Commission 1925-1928; member of the State house of representatives in 1927; attorney for Orlando, Fla. 1926-1929; State supreme court commissioner 1929-1932; elected on November 3, 1936, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Park Trammell; was reelected in 1940 and served from November 4, 1936, until his death in Washington, D.C., on September 18, 1946; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Seventy-ninth Congress), Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Seventy-ninth Congress), Special Committee on Reconstruction of the Senate Roof and Skylights (Seventy-ninth Congress); interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Orlando, Fla.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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