Landaff Watson Andrews

Whig Representative of Kentucky's 11th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

February 12, 1803 (84 years old)

Birthday

December 23, 1887

Death

Graduated from the law department of Transylvania University in 1826
Admitted to the bar the same year
Practiced law in Flemingsburg, Kentucky
Was a slave owner
Served as the prosecuting attorney of Fleming County, Kentucky, from 1829 to 1839
Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1834 to 1838 and again in 1861 to 1862
Elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (1839–1843)
Unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1842
Served in the Kentucky Senate as an independent candidate in 1857
Served as a judge of the circuit court from 1862 to 1868
Resumed the practice of law after leaving the state legislature
Died in 1888 and was buried in Fleming County Cemetery