George R. Andrews

George Rex Andrews (September 21, 1808 – December 5, 1873) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born in Ticonderoga, New York, Andrews attended the common schools and was graduated from the Albany Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1836 and commenced the practice of law in Ticonderoga.

Andrews was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress and served from March 4, 1849 to March 3, 1851.

After his single term in Congress, Andrews abandoned politics and the legal profession altogether and moved to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in 1852 and engaged in the timber and lumber business until his death.

Anderson died in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on December 5, 1873,(age 65 years, 72 days). He is interred at Riverside Cemetery, Oshkosh, Wisconsin.