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Preceded by
  
Richard Menefee

Name
  
Landaff Andrews

Succeeded by
  
District abolished

Role
  
Attorney at law


Political party
  
Whig

Profession
  
Lawyer

Party
  
Whig Party

Landaff Andrews

Born
  
February 12, 1803 Fleming County, Kentucky (
1803-02-12
)

Resting place
  
Fleming County Cemetery

Alma mater
  
Transylvania University

Died
  
December 23, 1888, Flemingsburg, Kentucky, United States

Education
  
Transylvania University

Landaff Watson Andrews (February 12, 1803 – December 23, 1888) was a United States Representative from Kentucky. Born in Flemingsburg, Kentucky, he graduated from the law department of Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky in 1826 and was admitted to the bar the same year. Andrews commenced practice in Flemingsburg, Kentucky.

Andrews was the prosecuting attorney of Fleming County, Kentucky, 1829–1839, and a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, 1834-1838. He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1843) but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress. After leaving Congress, he served in the Kentucky Senate as an independent candidate in 1857 and was again elected a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, in 1861, and served until 1862, when he resigned.

After leaving the state legislature, Andrews was the judge of the circuit court 1862-1868. He resumed the practice of law in Flemingsburg, Kentucky where he died in 1888. He was buried in Fleming County Cemetery.

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