The Biographical Dictionary of America/Andrews, Charles Bartlett

ANDREWS, Charles Bartlett, governor of Connecticut, was born in Sunderland, Mass., Nov. 4, 1834, son of Erastus and Almira (Bartlett) Andrews, and a descendant of Williams Andrews of Hartford, Conn. Charles was graduated at Amherst in 1858; removed to Connecticut; was State senator, 1868-'69; a representative in the legislature in 1878, governor of Connecticut, 1879-'81; judge of the superior court in 1882, and chief justice of the supreme court of errors, 1890-1901. He received the degree of LL.D. from Connecticut Wesleyan university, 1879, from Yale in 1895. He died in Litchfield, Conn., Sept. 12, 1902.