16 Facts About Andrew Humphreys

Andrew Humphreys was a US Representative from Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, who served in the Forty-fourth Congress.

In 1864 Andrew Humphreys was a defendant in a controversial trial by a military commission that convened on October 21 at Indianapolis, where he and three others were convicted of treason.

Andrew Humphreys was sentenced to hard labor for the remainder of the war, but the sentence was modified three weeks later to allow for his release.

Andrew Humphreys, who was a Democrat, settled in Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, and served as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives from 1849 to 1852, and from January 8 to March 9,1857.

Andrew Humphreys was appointed Indian agent for Utah by President Buchanan in 1857.

On October 7,1864, Andrew Humphreys was arrested and imprisoned in the Federal Building at Indianapolis, where he became one of the defendants in the Indianapolis treason trials before the military commission.

Andrew Humphreys was sentenced to hard labor for the remainder of the war.

Andrew Humphreys was required to remain within two specific townships in Greene County and could not participate in any acts that opposed the war.

Andrew Humphreys was the first of the defendants from the Indianapolis treason trials to turn to the civilian courts seeking damages from his arrest, trial, and confinement.

Andrew Humphreys served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1872 and 1888.

Andrew Humphreys was elected to the Indiana Senate three times, serving from 1874 to 1876, from 1878 to 1882, and from 1896 to 1900.

Andrew Humphreys began his first term in the Indiana Senate in 1874, but resigned in 1876 to run for a seat in the USCongress.

Andrew Humphreys returned to the Indiana Senate in 1878 and became chairman of its ways and means committee.

In 1896, at the age of seventy-four, the Democrats drafted Andrew Humphreys to run for another term in the Indiana Senate.

Andrew Humphreys attended nearly every Democratic State convention during his political life.

Andrew Humphreys died at Linton, Indiana, on June 14,1904, and is interred in Moss Cemetery.