Andrew James Peters
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Andrew James Peters | |
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Andrew James Peters circa 1918[1]
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 11th district |
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In office March 4, 1907 – August 15, 1914 |
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Preceded by | John A. Sullivan |
Succeeded by | George H. Tinkham |
42nd Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts | |
In office 1918–1922 |
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Preceded by | James M. Curley |
Succeeded by | James M. Curley |
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Born | April 3, 1872 West Roxbury, Massachusetts |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Martha Peters |
Alma mater | Harvard Law School |
Occupation | Lawyer |
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Andrew James Peters (April 3, 1872 – July 26, 1938) was an American politician. He was born on April 3, 1872 in Jamaica Plain, a section of Boston. His family had been in Massachusetts since the first Andrew Peters arrived there in 1657. Peters attended Harvard University and Harvard Law School. He served two terms (1904, 1905) in the Massachusetts State Legislature. In 1906 he was elected to Congress where he would serve from 1907 to 1914.[2] In 1914 he was appointed to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under William Gibbs McAdoo in the first administration of President Woodrow Wilson. He served there until 1918 when he began his term as Mayor of Boston.
Peters' term as Mayor is remembered for his handling of the Boston Police Strike in 1919.
Peters was considered for the governorship later in the 1920s but was not nominated.
Peters' reputation also suffered because of his relationship with a young relative of his wife. He had married Martha Phillips in 1910, and together bore six children. Mrs. Peters cousin, Mrs. Helen Faithfull, had a young daughter named Starr Wyman, later Starr Faithfull, who attracted Peters' attention in 1917. Eventually he had an affair with the eleven year old Starr[3] and paid money to her mother and stepfather to keep the story quiet. Starr died under mysterious circumstances on Long Island, New York in 1931. The story came out damaging Peters' reputation (despite his denials of it).
The circumstances of Peters' relationship with Starr Faithfull eventually became part of the material used by John O'Hara in his novel Butterfield 8. Peters also plays a key role in Dennis Lehane's novel The Given Day.
Peters died of pneumonia on 26 June 1938.
See also
- Timeline of Boston, 1900s-1920s
Notes
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References
- Goodman, Jonathan.: The Passing of Starr Faithfull. (London: Piatkus, c. 1990) ISBN 0-86188-844-8
- Russell, Francis.: A City in Terror, 1919: The Boston Police Strike (New York: Viking Press, c. 1975) ISBN 0-670-22449-9
- Russell, Francis.: The Knave of Boston & Other Ambiguous Massachusetts Characters (Boston: Quinlan Press, c. 1988) (pp. 68–84: "The Mayor and the Nymphet") ISBN 0-933341-79-2
- City of Boston Statistics Department The Municipal Register for 1918 (1918) p. 2.
United States House of Representatives | ||
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Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 11th congressional district March 4, 1907 – August 15, 1914 |
Succeeded by George H. Tinkham |
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Preceded by | Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts 1918–1922 |
Succeeded by James Michael Curley |
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- Mayors of Boston, Massachusetts
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
- Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Massachusetts State Senators
- Harvard Law School alumni
- 1872 births
- 1938 deaths
- Massachusetts Democrats
- Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives