William Shankland Andrews (September 25, 1858 – August 5, 1936) was an American lawyer and politician from

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Life

He was the son of Chief Judge Charles Andrews, the husband of

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and the great grandfather of Nancy Andrews, an American biologist. After completing studies at St. John's Academy,

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, where he was Head Boy in 1872, Andrews graduated from

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in 1880, received his

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degree from

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in 1882, and commenced practice in Syracuse in 1884. He was a justice of the

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from 1900 to 1921. In 1917, he was designated by Governor

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a judge of the

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, and in

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, he was elected to a regular seat. He dissented from several opinions by noted fellow judge

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. These included dissents in '' Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.'' and ''

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'', both cases in which Andrews expressed a sharply different philosophy of the responsibilities people owe to one another. Andrews retired from the bench at the end of 1928 when he reached the constitutional age limit of 70 years. He died from a fall from his bed, three days after the death of his wife.

External links

Historical Society of the Courts of New York
(portrait gallery with a link to a biography of William S. Andrews)

References

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