Robert Ernest Andrews (born August 4, 1957) is an American Democratic politician who served as a U.S. Representative for New Jersey\'s 1st congressional district from 1990 to 2014. The district included most of Camden County and parts of Burlington County and Gloucester County.\n', '

In 2014, he resigned his position in the middle of his term, while being investigated by Congress for alleged ethics violations for using campaign funds for personal use.\n', '

Andrews was born in Camden, New Jersey, the son of Josephine (née Amies) and Ernest Andrews; he is predominantly of Scottish and Scotch-Irish descent and counts American portrait painter Charles Willson Peale and Johannes Roosevelt among his ancestors. He grew up in Bellmawr and attended Triton Regional High School in Runnemede. Andrews was the first in his family to attend college, graduating from Bucknell University in 1979 with a BA in political science, summa cum laude. He later attended Cornell University Law School, earning his JD degree with honors in 1982.\n', 'Before his election to Congress, Andrews was involved in legal education as a member of Cornell Law Review\u200d\u200d\u200a\'\u200ds board of editors. 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. From 1983 onward, Andrews operated a private law practice. In 1986, he was elected as a member of the Camden County Board of Chosen Freeholders, where he served for four years, including two years as freeholder director (1988–1990).\n', '

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