{{short description|American college president}} thumb|right|Reddin Andrews {{Moresources|date=March 2024}} '''Reddin Andrews''' (January 28, 1848 &ndash; August 16, 1923) was a two time Texas gubernatorial candidate and the president of Baylor University from 1885 to 1886.<ref name="texas">[http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fan49 Handbook of Texas Online]</ref><ref name="baylor">[http://www.baylor.edu/about/index.php?id=47605 Baylor Presidency biography]</ref>

==Biography== Reddin Andrews was born in La Grange, Texas, on January 18, 1848.<ref name="texas"/><ref name="baylor"/> He fought for the Confederacy as a scout and a courier during the American Civil War.<ref name="texas"/><ref name="baylor"/>

In 1871, he graduated from Baylor University as a valedictorian. From 1871 to 1873, he attended the Greenville Seminary in Greenville, South Carolina.<ref name="texas"/> He became a pastor in Navasota, Texas, and preached in Millican, Hempstead, Calvert, Tyler, Lampasas, Bastrop, Webberville, Hillsboro, Rockwall and Lovelady.<ref name="texas"/>

He married Elizabeth Eddins in 1874 and they had nine children. From 1871 to 1878, he was a professor at Baylor University. In 1878, he became the principal of the Masonic Institute in Round Rock, Texas.<ref name="texas"/>

He was an editor to John B. Link's ''Texas Baptist Herald''.<ref name="texas"/> He returned to Baylor University to serve as its president from 1885 to 1886, as it was merged with Waco University.<ref name="texas"/> In 1886, he helped merge the Baptist State Convention and Baptist General Association into the Baptist General Convention of Texas.<ref name="texas"/> In 1889, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, to edit W.T. Martin's ''Gospel Standard and Expositor''.<ref name="texas"/>

In 1892, he moved to Belton, Texas, and worked for the People's Party. In 1907, he was the editor of ''Sword and Shield'' in Tyler.<ref name="texas"/> In 1910 and 1912, he ran for Texas governor as the nominee of the Socialist Party. In 1910, he came in third place with just over 5% of the vote, and in 1912 came in second with over 8%, but both times lost overwhelmingly to the Democratic nominee. In 1916, he moved to Lawton, Oklahoma, where he died in 1923.<ref name="texas"/>

==Bibliography== *''Poems'' (1911)

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