Stanley Andrews

Colonel Stanley Andrews (December 18, 1894 – December 31, 1994) was a journalist and U.S. Army officer from Missouri who headed both the Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Technical Cooperation Administration of the U.S. Department of State. Colonel Andrews was a veteran of both World War I and World War II. Andrews wrote an unpublished memoir, Journal of a Retread, a copy of which he donated to the Truman Presidential Library along with transfer of its copyright to the public domain. Official Biography The following official biography was printed as part of a circular memorandum, number 883(8-53) of the Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture: Stanley Andrews was born at High Point, Mo., 18 December 1895, [sic] the son of George R. and Martha Ann (Board) Andrews. He was graduated from the University of Missouri in 1921, having majored in journalism and agricultural economics. He was married to Florence F. Cox, only daughter of Florence Cox Walker, in 1924. They had one daughter, Florence Walker Andrews (Mrs. Jack Chestnut [sic] of Little Rock, Ark.).