Sherlock James Andrews
Whig Representative of Ohio's 15th district
Representative
Ohio, district 15
May 31, 1841 - March 3, 1843
1
Congresses Served
1
House Terms
November 17, 1801 (78 years old)
Birthday
February 11, 1880
Death
- American lawyer and abolitionist Congressman
- 1st President of the Cleveland Bar Association
- Defended abolitionists in the Oberlin–Wellington Rescue Case
- Co-founded the Cleveland Anti-Slavery Society and the Select Committee on Slavery
- Graduated from Union College and studied law at Yale
- Married Ursula McCurdy Allen and had 5 children
- Early advocate for Cleveland’s development, including its first church, city council, public library, and the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railway
- Served in the Twenty-seventh Congress as a Whig; did not seek a second term due to health issues
- Appointed Judge of the superior court of Cleveland (1848-1850)
- Became a Republican alongside Abraham Lincoln in 1856
- United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio in 1867
- Formed and led the Cleveland Bar Association for 7 years
- Connected to several prominent families through marriage and his children’s marriages, including the Clays, Herricks, and Dulles families