James McAndrews

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = James McAndrews

|image = James McAndrews (Illinois Congressman).jpg

|caption = Chicago Eagle newspaper, June 7, 1913

|state1 = Illinois

|district1 = {{ushr|Illinois|9|9th}}

|term_start1 = January 3, 1935

|term_end1 = January 3, 1941

|predecessor1 = Frederick A. Britten

|successor1 = Charles S. Dewey

|state2 = Illinois

|district2 = {{ushr|Illinois|6|6th}}

|term_start2 = March 4, 1913

|term_end2 = March 3, 1921

|predecessor2 = Edmund J. Stack

|successor2 = John J. Gorman

|state3 = Illinois

|district3 = {{ushr|Illinois|5|5th}}

|term_start3 = March 4, 1903

|term_end3 = March 3, 1905

|predecessor3 = William F. Mahoney

|successor3 = Anthony Michalek

|state4 = Illinois

|district4 = {{ushr|Illinois|4|4th}}

|term_start4 = March 4, 1901

|term_end4 = March 3, 1903

|predecessor4 = Thomas Cusack

|successor4 = George Peter Foster

|birth_name =

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1862|10|22}}

|birth_place = Woonsocket, Rhode Island

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1942|8|31|1862|10|22}}

|death_place = Chicago, Illinois

|party = Democratic

}}

James McAndrews (October 22, 1862 – August 31, 1942) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.

Born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, McAndrews attended the common schools. He moved to Chicago, Illinois, and engaged in business, serving as building commissioner of Chicago.

McAndrews was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1905).{{cite web |title=S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903 |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-04562_00_00-001-0001-0000 |website=GovInfo.gov |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=2 July 2023 |page=21 |date=9 November 1903}} He was then elected to the Sixty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1921).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress, and instead resumed his business activities.

He was also an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress.

McAndrews was elected to the Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Congresses (January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1941). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress. He died in Chicago, Illinois, and was interred in Calvary Cemetery, Evanston, Illinois.