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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