Hiram G. Andrews was a Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Pennsylvania House of Representatives

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two year terms from single member districts....

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Andrews was first elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1933 and served through 1936. He was reelected in 1939 and completed his two-year term in 1940. He was reelected for a third nonconsecutive tenure in 1945 and served in the Pennsylvania House through 1962, for a total of 24 years. There is a college named after him called the Hiram G. Andrews Center in Johnstown.http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/VC/visitor_info/gallery/SpeakersPortraits.pdf.

Andrews was from Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania

Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Johnstown is a city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States, west-southwest of Altoona, Pennsylvania and east of Pittsburgh. The population was 20,978 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Cambria County...

http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/VC/visitor_info/gallery/SpeakersPortraits.pdf.