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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Cecil Dale Cecil Andrus
|image=Cecil Andrus of ID.png
|office=26th and 28th [[Governor]] of [[Idaho]]
|term_start=January 5, 1987
|term_end=January 2, 1995
|preceded=John V. Evans
|succeeded=Phil Batt
|term_start2=January 4, 1971
|term_end2=January 23, 1977 (resigned)
|preceded2=[[Don Samuelson]]
|succeeded2=John V. Evans
|office3=42nd [[United States Secretary of the Interior]]
|president3=[[Jimmy Carter]]
|term_start3=January 23, 1977
|term_end3=January 20, 1981
|preceded3=Thomas S. Kleppe
|succeeded2=[[James G. Watt]]
|office4=Chairman of the<br>
National Governors Association
|term_start4=July 4, 1976
|term_end4=January 23, 1977
|predeceded4=Robert D. Ray
|succeeded4=[[Reubin Askew]]
|birth_date=August 25, 1931
|birth_place=Hood River, [[Oregon]]
|death_date=August 24, 2017 (died one day before his 86th birthday)
|death_place=[[Boise]], Idaho
|resting_place=Pioneer Cemetery in Boise
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|spouse=Carol May Andrus (married 1949-2017, his death)
|children=Three children
|alma_mater=Eugene (Oregon) High School<br>
[[Oregon State University]]
|branch=[[United States Navy]]
|serviceyear=1951–1955
|rank=Petty officer, second class
|unit=U.S. Naval Reserve
|battles=[[Korean War]]<br>[[Cold War]]
}}
'''Cecil Dale Andrus''' (August 25, 1931 – August 24, 2017) wasthe 26th and 28th [[Governor]] of his adopted state of [[Idaho]]. A [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], he served fourteen years in nonconsecutive terms between 1967 and 1995. He resigned as governor on January 23, 1977, to become the [[United States Secretary of the Interior]] under [[U.S. President]] [[Jimmy Carter]]. He returned to the governorship in 1987 after winning the 1986 [[general election]].<ref name=waposhsm>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/cecil-andrus-defender-of-alaskas-wilderness-as-carters-interior-secretary-dies-at-85/2017/08/25/bdc4eb4c-89a0-11e7-961d-2f373b3977ee_story.html?deferJs=true&outputType=default-article |publisher=''[[Washington Post]]''|author=Harrison Smith|title=Cecil Andrus, defender of Alaska's wilderness as Carter's interior secretary, dies at 85 |date=August 25, 2017|accessdate=September 9, 2021}}</ref>
Andrus lost his first bid for governor in 1966, having been defeated by the [[conservative]] [[Don Samuelson]], who had won the Republican [[primary]] over the more moderate [[Robert E. Smylie]]. Andrus unseated Samuelson in 1970, when Carter was elected to his only term as governor of [[Georgia]]. Andrus was elected again in 1974, 1986, and 1990. His fourteen years as governor is the most in state history, and he is the last Democrat to serve as governor since 1995.
Born in Hood River, [[Oregon]], a port on the [[Columbia Rivers]], Andres was the middle of three children of Hal Stephen Andrus (1906-2004) and the former Dorothy May Johnson (1919-1982). For a time, he lived on a farm without electricity near Junction City, Oregon. the family later moved to Eugene, Oregon, home of the [[University of Oregon]]. Andrus graduated from high school in Eugene but attended [[Oregon State University]] in Corvallis in the northwestern portion of the state. He served in the [[United States Navy]] in the [[Korean War]] and the [[Cold War]]. <ref name=findagrave>Cecil Dale Andrus (1931-2017) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed September 9, 2021.</ref>
A strong [[conservation]]ist, Andrus is honored by the naming of the Cecil D. Andrus Wildlife Management Area in Washington County on Hell's Canyon of the Snake River. In 2018, the Cecil D. Andrus–White Clouds Wildernes] was renamed for him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/letters-om-the-west/article206451719.html|title=Andrus spent his life protecting this iconic Idaho wilderness; now it will carry his name|publisher=''Idaho Statesman''|author=Rocky Barker|date=March 22, 2018|accessdate=September 9, 2021}}</ref>
Despite Idaho's reputation as a conservative state and Republican at the presidential level, Andrus was a [[liberal]]. His environmental policy called for minimizing the control of business interests over the public domain and by placing decision-making in the hands of so-called experts in the Interior Department. He argued that environmentalism can and must coexist with economic development. He worked in the timber and [[insurance]] businesses.<ref>Anne Becher and Joseph Richey, ''American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present'' (2 vol, 2nd ed. 2008), pp 27–29.</ref> As governor, Andrus battled the federal government to remove nuclear waste from Idaho. He also promoted the interests of educators and [[farmer]]s.<ref name=findagrave/>
As an elder statesman, Andrus endorsed [[Barack Hussein Obama]] for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, rather than [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]]. Andrus said that then Senator Obama reminded him of the promise of President [[John F. Kennedy]].<ref>Obama endorsed by former Idaho Governor Andrus - oregonlive.com, accessed September 9, 2021.</ref>
Andrus died of lung cancer in Boise the day before his 86th birthday and is interred there at Pioneer Cemetery.<ref name=findagrave/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Andrus, Cecil}}
[[Category:Idaho]]
[[Category:Oregon]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Former Governors]]
[[Category:Democratic Governors]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Liberals]]
[[Category:United States Secretaries of the Interior]]
[[Category:United States Navy]]
|name=Cecil Dale Cecil Andrus
|image=Cecil Andrus of ID.png
|office=26th and 28th [[Governor]] of [[Idaho]]
|term_start=January 5, 1987
|term_end=January 2, 1995
|preceded=John V. Evans
|succeeded=Phil Batt
|term_start2=January 4, 1971
|term_end2=January 23, 1977 (resigned)
|preceded2=[[Don Samuelson]]
|succeeded2=John V. Evans
|office3=42nd [[United States Secretary of the Interior]]
|president3=[[Jimmy Carter]]
|term_start3=January 23, 1977
|term_end3=January 20, 1981
|preceded3=Thomas S. Kleppe
|succeeded2=[[James G. Watt]]
|office4=Chairman of the<br>
National Governors Association
|term_start4=July 4, 1976
|term_end4=January 23, 1977
|predeceded4=Robert D. Ray
|succeeded4=[[Reubin Askew]]
|birth_date=August 25, 1931
|birth_place=Hood River, [[Oregon]]
|death_date=August 24, 2017 (died one day before his 86th birthday)
|death_place=[[Boise]], Idaho
|resting_place=Pioneer Cemetery in Boise
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|spouse=Carol May Andrus (married 1949-2017, his death)
|children=Three children
|alma_mater=Eugene (Oregon) High School<br>
[[Oregon State University]]
|branch=[[United States Navy]]
|serviceyear=1951–1955
|rank=Petty officer, second class
|unit=U.S. Naval Reserve
|battles=[[Korean War]]<br>[[Cold War]]
}}
'''Cecil Dale Andrus''' (August 25, 1931 – August 24, 2017) wasthe 26th and 28th [[Governor]] of his adopted state of [[Idaho]]. A [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], he served fourteen years in nonconsecutive terms between 1967 and 1995. He resigned as governor on January 23, 1977, to become the [[United States Secretary of the Interior]] under [[U.S. President]] [[Jimmy Carter]]. He returned to the governorship in 1987 after winning the 1986 [[general election]].<ref name=waposhsm>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/cecil-andrus-defender-of-alaskas-wilderness-as-carters-interior-secretary-dies-at-85/2017/08/25/bdc4eb4c-89a0-11e7-961d-2f373b3977ee_story.html?deferJs=true&outputType=default-article |publisher=''[[Washington Post]]''|author=Harrison Smith|title=Cecil Andrus, defender of Alaska's wilderness as Carter's interior secretary, dies at 85 |date=August 25, 2017|accessdate=September 9, 2021}}</ref>
Andrus lost his first bid for governor in 1966, having been defeated by the [[conservative]] [[Don Samuelson]], who had won the Republican [[primary]] over the more moderate [[Robert E. Smylie]]. Andrus unseated Samuelson in 1970, when Carter was elected to his only term as governor of [[Georgia]]. Andrus was elected again in 1974, 1986, and 1990. His fourteen years as governor is the most in state history, and he is the last Democrat to serve as governor since 1995.
Born in Hood River, [[Oregon]], a port on the [[Columbia Rivers]], Andres was the middle of three children of Hal Stephen Andrus (1906-2004) and the former Dorothy May Johnson (1919-1982). For a time, he lived on a farm without electricity near Junction City, Oregon. the family later moved to Eugene, Oregon, home of the [[University of Oregon]]. Andrus graduated from high school in Eugene but attended [[Oregon State University]] in Corvallis in the northwestern portion of the state. He served in the [[United States Navy]] in the [[Korean War]] and the [[Cold War]]. <ref name=findagrave>Cecil Dale Andrus (1931-2017) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed September 9, 2021.</ref>
A strong [[conservation]]ist, Andrus is honored by the naming of the Cecil D. Andrus Wildlife Management Area in Washington County on Hell's Canyon of the Snake River. In 2018, the Cecil D. Andrus–White Clouds Wildernes] was renamed for him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/letters-om-the-west/article206451719.html|title=Andrus spent his life protecting this iconic Idaho wilderness; now it will carry his name|publisher=''Idaho Statesman''|author=Rocky Barker|date=March 22, 2018|accessdate=September 9, 2021}}</ref>
Despite Idaho's reputation as a conservative state and Republican at the presidential level, Andrus was a [[liberal]]. His environmental policy called for minimizing the control of business interests over the public domain and by placing decision-making in the hands of so-called experts in the Interior Department. He argued that environmentalism can and must coexist with economic development. He worked in the timber and [[insurance]] businesses.<ref>Anne Becher and Joseph Richey, ''American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present'' (2 vol, 2nd ed. 2008), pp 27–29.</ref> As governor, Andrus battled the federal government to remove nuclear waste from Idaho. He also promoted the interests of educators and [[farmer]]s.<ref name=findagrave/>
As an elder statesman, Andrus endorsed [[Barack Hussein Obama]] for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, rather than [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]]. Andrus said that then Senator Obama reminded him of the promise of President [[John F. Kennedy]].<ref>Obama endorsed by former Idaho Governor Andrus - oregonlive.com, accessed September 9, 2021.</ref>
Andrus died of lung cancer in Boise the day before his 86th birthday and is interred there at Pioneer Cemetery.<ref name=findagrave/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Andrus, Cecil}}
[[Category:Idaho]]
[[Category:Oregon]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Former Governors]]
[[Category:Democratic Governors]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Liberals]]
[[Category:United States Secretaries of the Interior]]
[[Category:United States Navy]]