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{{Short description|American economist (1844–1917)}}

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|image=Elisha Andrews.jpg
|caption=Elisha Andrews, painted by [[William Merritt Chase]]
|office=7th [[Chancellor of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln|Chancellor of University of Nebraska]]
|term_start=September 22, 1900
|term_end=November 6, 1908
|predecessor=[[George Edwin MacLean]]
|successor=Samuel Avery
|office1= 7th [[Superintendent of Chicago Public Schools]]
|term_start1=1898
|term_end1=1900
|predecessor1=[[Albert G. Lane]]
|successor1= [[Edwin G. Cooley]]
|office2=8th [[List of Presidents of Brown University|President of Brown University]]
|term_start2=1889
|term_end2=1898
|predecessor2=[[Ezekiel Robinson]]
|successor2=[[William Faunce]]
|birth_date={{birth date|1844|1|10}}
|birth_place=[[Hinsdale, New Hampshire|Hinsdale]], [[New Hampshire]], [[United States|U.S.]]
|death_date={{death date and age|1917|10|30|1844|1|10}}
|death_place=[[Interlachen, Florida|Interlachen]], [[Florida]], [[United States|U.S.]]
|alma_mater=[[Brown University]]
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|nationality=[[United States|American]]
|allegiance= {{flagicon|USA|1865}} [[United States]]<br/>[[Union (American Civil War)|Union]]
|branch= [[United States Army]]<br/>[[Union Army]]
|rank= Second Lieutenant
|battles= [[American Civil War]]
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'''Elisha Benjamin Andrews''' (January 10, 1844 – October 30, 1917) was an American economist, soldier, and educator.

==Early life==
Andrews was born in [[Hinsdale, New Hampshire|Hinsdale]], [[New Hampshire]].<ref name="auto">Marquis Who's Who, Inc. ''Who Was Who in American History, the Military''. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1975, p. 12; {{ISBN|0837932017}} {{OCLC|657162692}}</ref>

==Career ==
He served in [[Connecticut]] regiments during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] as a private and later promoted through ranks to 2nd lieutenant.  He was wounded on August 24, 1865, at [[Petersburg, Virginia|Petersburg]].<ref name="auto"/>

Graduating from [[Brown University]] in 1870 and from the [[Newton Theological Institution]] in 1874, he preached for one year and then was president of [[Denison University]] from 1875 to 1879. He was [[professor]] of [[homiletics]] at [[Newton Theological Institution]] from 1879 to 1882; professor of history and [[political economy]] at [[Brown University]] from 1882 to 1888; professor of political economy and finance at [[Cornell University]] from 1888 to 1889; and he served as the [[Brown University#Presidents|president]] of Brown University from 1889 until 1898.<ref name="auto"/>  He resigned as president of Brown in 1897 because of criticism by trustees of his advocacy of [[free silver]] but at that time withdrew his resignation.
On February 1, 1890, he became a charter member and the organizing president of the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (RISSAR).  He was succeeded in that office later that year by [[John Nicholas Brown I]].  Ironically, although both Andrews and Brown were active in organizing the RISSAR, neither formally applied for membership in the organization.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/manualofrhodeisl02sons#page/11/mode/1up Biography (p. 12)]. Accessed March 28, 2024.</ref>

In 1892, he was an American commissioner to the [[Brussels]] monetary conference and was a strong supporter of international [[bimetallism]].  He was also elected a member of the [[American Antiquarian Society]] in 1892.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlista |title=American Antiquarian Society Members Directory |access-date=2017-04-26 |archive-date=2017-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427111323/http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlista |url-status=live }}</ref>

He was the superintendent of schools for [[Chicago]] from 1898 to 1900, and then became chancellor of the [[University of Nebraska–Lincoln|University of Nebraska]] in 1900.<ref name="auto"/>  He retired from academic life as chancellor emeritus of the University of Nebraska on January 1, 1909.  He became a member of the corporation of Brown University in 1900 and was made president of the [[American Association of State Colleges and Universities]] in 1904.

Andrews died at his home in [[Interlachen, Florida|Interlachen]], [[Florida]] in 1917, aged 73.<ref name="auto"/>

==Publisher==
Andrews published many college textbooks on history and economics, including:<ref>{{cite BDA1906 |wstitle= Andrews, Elisha Benjamin |volume= 1 |page= 119 |short=1}}</ref> 
* ''An Honest Dollar'' (1889; third edition, 1894)
* ''[[iarchive:wealthmorallaw00andruoft|Wealth and Moral Law]]'' (1894)
* ''History of the United States'' (two volumes, 1894)
* ''History of the United States'' (six volumes, 1903–12)
* ''[[iarchive:historyoflastqua0000eben/page/n9/mode/2up|The History of the Last Quarter Century in the United States, 1870-95]]'' (1896; revised under the title ''The United States in Our Own Time'', 1903)

==References==
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==Sources==
* [[American National Biography]], vol. 1, pp. 494–496.

==External links==
* [http://www.munseys.com/diskfive/usondex.htm History of the United States, Volume I<!-- bot-generated title -->]
* [http://www.munseys.com/diskfive/hithrdex.htm History of the United States, Volume 3<!-- bot-generated title -->]
* {{Gutenberg author |id=9609| name=Elisha Benjamin Andrews}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Elisha Benjamin Andrews}}

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