ANDREW JAMES PETERS

Peters, Andrew James (1872-1938), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in West Roxbury, Suffolk County, Mass., April 3, 1872; attended Hopkinson’s and St. Paul’s Schools; was graduated from Harvard University in 1895 and from the Harvard Law School in 1898; was admitted to the bar in 1897 and commenced practice in Boston, Mass.; member of the State house of representatives in 1902; served in the State senate in 1904 and 1905; served five years in the Massachusetts Militia; elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1907, until his resignation, effective August 15, 1914; appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and served from August 17, 1914, to March 15, 1917; mayor of Boston 1918-1922; resumed the practice of law; president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce 1926-1928; died in Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Mass., June 26, 1938; interment in Forest Hills Cemetery.
Son of Andrew James Peters and Mary Richards (Whitney) Peters
Married, June 23, 1910, to Martha R. Phillips b. abt 1882 Massachusetts
Children:
Andrew J Peters b. abt 1912 Massachusetts
Alanson T Peters b. abt 1913 Massachusetts
John P Peters b. abt 1915 Massachusetts
Bradford Peters b. abt 1918 Massachusetts
Robeson Peters b. abt 1919 Massachusetts

Sources:
U.S. Federal Census
Family Collections LDS
The Political Graveyard
Submitted by Deborah Crowell