Lincoln Clark Andrews

Lincoln Clark Andrews (November 21, 1867 – November 23, 1950) was a brigadier general in the United States Army during World War I and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury starting in 1925. As Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, he was in charge of Prohibition enforcement. Time magazine called his forces the Prohibition Army.

Early life He was born on November 21, 1867, in Owatonna, Minnesota, to Charles T. Andrews and Mary Clark Andrews. He attended Cornell University from 1888 to 1889. with which he served during the Pullman Strike riots in Chicago in 1894. Silver Star after Roy Asa Haynes. He immediately began to reorganize the bureau in 1925, resulting in the layoffs of numerous senior agents, including Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith in New York, who were nationally the most successful and famous . Andrews saw Prohibition enforcement as strict law enforcement and was not an ideological adherent to the dry movement. Andrews served until August 1, 1927.

Post political career From November 1, 1927 to June 1928, he was the president of Guardian Investment Trust in Hartford, Connecticut.

In June 1928, he became president of the Rubber Institute.

Death and legacy He died on November 23, 1950 in Northampton, Massachusetts. Personal life He married Charlotte Graves on October 5, 1899. They had one son: John G. Andrews. He lived in Grand Isle, Vermont.