Elizabeth B. Andrews

Leslie Elizabeth Bullock Andrews (February 12, 1911 – December 2, 2002) was an American politician, who was the first woman to represent Alabama in the United States House of Representatives. She was the wife of congressman George William Andrews, and was elected to his seat after his death.

Biography Born Leslie Elizabeth Bullock in Geneva, Alabama, to Charles Gillespie Bullock and Janie Aycock, Andrews attended Geneva public schools. She earned a B.S. in home economics from Montevallo College (now the University of Montevallo), Montevallo, Alabama, in 1932. She went on to become a high school teacher at Livingston, Alabama. She later took a teaching job in Union Springs for the better pay during the Depression. This is where she met her husband, George William Andrews. Running unopposed, she was elected as a Democrat by special election to the Ninety-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, United States Representative George W. Andrews. She served the remainder of that Congress from April 4, 1972, to January 3, 1973. She was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-third Congress in 1972. She remained the only woman elected to represent Alabama in either House of Congress until the elections of Representatives Martha Roby and Terri Sewell in 2010.

She left Congress in January 1973 and she moved to Union Springs where she was active in civic affairs.