Andrew, John Albion

Life Span
to
    Full name
    John Albion Andrew
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    4
    Family
    Jonathan Andrew (father), Nancy Green Pierce (mother), Eliza Jones (wife, 1848)
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    Bowdoin College, ME
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Unitarian or Universalist
    Political Parties
    Whig
    Free Soil
    Republican
    Other Affiliations
    Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)
    Government
    Governor

    John Albion Andrew, United States Colored Troops (American National Biography)

    Scholarship
    Concurrent with his efforts for aid for freedpeople, Andrew took the lead in the experiment in racial egalitarianism for which he is most famous, the mobilization of African-American soldiers.

    Andrew was the politician best situated to transform into military policy the demands of black activists that African Americans be allowed to achieve their own equality through combat. In January 1863, after several months of vigorous lobbying, Andrew obtained authorization from Secretary of War Edwin Stanton to recruit an African-American regiment in Massachusetts, but only with the proviso that all commissioned officers be white. Swallowing his objections to this stipulation, Andrew organized the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers.
    James Brewer Stewart, "Andrew, John Albion," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-00022.html.
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