{{short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = David Andrew | honorific_suffix = | image = David Andrew.jpg | title = Senator for Victoria | term_start = 14 November 1925 | term_end = 18 November 1928 | predecessor = Joseph Hannan | successor = Richard Abbott | birth_name = David John Andrew | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1867|11|10}} | birth_place = Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1928|11|18|1866|11|10}} | death_place = Bendigo, Victoria, Australia | spouse = {{marriage|Myra McIntyre|1888|1892|reason=died}}<br/>{{marriage|Clara McIntyre|1893|1928|reason=died}} | party = Country | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = Auctioneer | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''David John Andrew''' (10 November 1867 – 18 November 1928) was an Australian politician. He was a Senator for Victoria from 1925 until his death in 1928, representing the Country Party. He was an auctioneer prior to entering politics and also served three terms as mayor of Bendigo.
==Early life== Andrew was born on 10 November 1866 in Castlemaine, Victoria. He was the son of Augusta Arabella ({{nee|Willis}}) and James Sprunt Andrew. His father was a stonemason at the time of his birth but later worked as an auctioneer.<ref name=bio>{{Cite Au Senate|Sen id=david-john-andrew|name=ANDREW, David John (1866–1928)|first=Derek|last=Drinkwater|access-date=21 December 2022}}</ref>
Andrew was educated at state schools then served four years of an apprenticeship to a fitter. He left his apprenticeship to join his father's auctioneering business in Bendigo, which he took over in 1908. Andrew was prominent in various community organisations in Bendigo, serving as captain of the local fire brigade and later as president of the Victorian Country Fire Brigades Board.<ref name=bio/> He served as chairman of the local Citizens’ Patriotic Committee during World War I, was a founder and clan chief of the Bendigo Caledonian Society and a councillor of the Victorian Scottish Union, and was an honorary life governor of Bendigo Hospital.<ref name=aph>{{cite news|url=https://handbook.aph.gov.au/parliamentarians/JZW|title=ANDREW, David John|work=Parliamentary Handbook|publisher=Parliament of Australia|access-date=20 April 2026}}</ref> He was also active in the River Murray Waters Conservation League.<ref name=bio/>
==Politics== thumb|upright|Andrew c. 1925 (photograph by Bartlett Bros.) Andrew was a long-serving member of the Bendigo City Council and was elected as mayor in 1909, 1913 and 1920. He stood unsuccessfully for the Victorian Legislative Assembly on four occasions, running in Bendigo West at the 1911, 1914 and 1920 state elections and also at the 1915 Bendigo East state by-election.<ref name=bio/>
Andrew was an unsuccessful Country Party candidate for the Senate at the 1922 federal election.<ref name=bio/> He was elected to the Senate at the 1925 election, completing the remainder of the six-year term begun by Australian Labor Party senator Stephen Barker, who had died in office in 1924.<ref name=aph/> In parliament, Andrew supported economic interventionism, including a national insurance scheme, a national housing scheme, increased government spending on health and the elderly, and increased subsidies and protection for primary industry.<ref name=bio/>
Andrew was endorsed by the Country Party for re-election to a full term at the 1928 election, but experienced poor health in the lead-up to the election and withdrew his candidacy in October 1928, only days before the close of nominations.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244094516|title=Mr John Allan Misses Senate Chance: Senator Andrew's Withdrawal|newspaper=The Herald|location=Melbourne|date=6 October 1928}}</ref> He had experienced multiple heart attacks during the parliamentary term, including one during a parliamentary sitting.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/275417431|title=Senator Andrew dies on morning after elections|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|location=Melbourne|date=19 November 1928}}</ref>
==Personal life== In 1888, Andrew married Myra McIntyre. He was widowed in 1892 and the following year married his deceased wife's sister, Clara McIntyre. He had one son from his first marriage and two daughters from his second.<ref name=bio/>
Andrew died on 18 November 1928 at his home in Golden Square, Victoria, a day after the 1928 election. His second wife had died several weeks earlier.<ref name=bio/>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Mayors of Bendigo}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Andrew, David John}} Category:1867 births Category:1928 deaths Category:Australian auctioneers Category:Mayors of Bendigo Category:20th-century mayors of places in Australia Category:National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia Category:Members of the Australian Senate for Victoria Category:Members of the Australian Senate Category:Politicians from the Colony of Victoria Category:Australian firefighters Category:Australian people of Scottish descent