Rob Andrews
Robert Ernest "Rob" Andrews (born August 4, 1957) is the former U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 1st congressional district, serving from 1990 to 2014. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes most of Camden County and parts of Burlington County and Gloucester County.
Before his election to Congress, Andrews was a member of the Camden County Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1986 to 1990, including two years as freeholder director (1988–1990). A native of Camden and graduate of Bucknell University and Cornell Law School, he was an attorney and an adjunct professor at the Rutgers School of Law–Camden. In the U.S. House of Representatives, he served on the Committee on Armed Services, Committee on the Budget, and Committee on Education and Labor, where he served as chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Andrews was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 U.S. Senate election, being defeated by incumbent U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg. In November 2004, he received more votes than anyone ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey.
On February 4, 2014, sources familiar with Andrews' plans indicated that he would resign from Congress to take a position at a Philadelphia law firm. He was under investigation by the House Ethics Committee at the time of his resignation. Andrews retired from the House with the 10th longest tenure among U.S. Representatives in New Jersey history, and the fifth longest among Democrats in his state.
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