Stanley Andrews (journalist)


Colonel Stanley Andrews 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 Andrews wrote an unpublished memoir, a copy of which he donated to the Truman Presidential Library along with transfer of its copyright to the public domain.
, as Secretary of State Dean Acheson observes, April 24, 1952. U.S. Department of State photo, Truman Presidential Library, catalog number 72-116

Official Biography

The following official biography was printed as part of a circular memorandum, number 883 of the Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture:
to Col. Andrews thanking him for his service.

Career After Point Four

Colonel Andrews remained administrator of the Technical Cooperation Administration until September 1, 1953, when he resigned. He then moved to the Kellogg Foundation to administer the National Project in Agricultural Communications, working there until March 1960.
In 1963 Colonel Andrews bought a small citrus grove near Alamo, Texas. He worked briefly as a consultant to the Foreign Agricultural Service in 1965, conducting a survey of overseas posts. In retirement, he divided his time between Alamo, Texas, and Pleasant Green, Missouri, where he was involved in restoration of the Andrews-Chesnutt House.
Stanley Andrews died December 31, 1994. He and his wife are buried at the Pleasant Green Methodist Church and Old Cemetery in Cooper County, Missouri.

Legacy

The official papers of Stanley Andrews are housed at the Harry S Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri.