John Albion Andrew, 21st governor of Massachusetts since the adoption of the constitution of 1780, born in Windham, Me., May 31, 1818, died in Boston, Mass., Oct. 30, 1867. He graduated at Bowdoin college, Me., in 1837, and immediately afterward commenced the study of law in Boston, where in 1840 he was admitted to the bar. During the next 20 years he practised his profession in that city, his most conspicuous efforts being called forth by causes arising under the fugitive slave law of 1850; and in 1858, having during the previous ten years been closely identified with the anti-slavery party of Massachusetts, he was elected a member of the state legislature from Boston. In 1800 he was a member of the republican convention which nominated Mr. Lincoln for the presidency, and in the same year was elected governor of Massachusetts by the largest popular vote ever cast for any candidate. Anticipating the conflict between the government and the seceding states, he early took measures to place the militia of Massachusetts on a footing of efficiency; and within a week after the president's proclamation of April 15, 1801, he despatched five regiments of infantry, a battalion of riflemen, and a battery of artillery to the assistance of the government.

He subsequently took an active part in raising and equipping the Massachusetts contingent of three years' volunteers. H]e was reelected governor of Massachusetts in 1861, and made frequent visits to to Washington and other places to confer with public men on national affairs. He took part in the conference held by the governors of the loyal states as. Altoona, Penn., in September, 1802, and prepared the address which they subsequently presented to the president. He presided at the first national Unitarian convention in 1865. He retired from the office of governor in January, 1866, having positively declined a fifth reelection, and resumed the practice of the law. He afterward also declined an offer of the presidency of An-tioch college, Ohio.