{"id":209745,"date":"2020-10-06T18:27:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T23:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=209745"},"modified":"2020-10-07T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T15:53:13","slug":"former-congressman-senator-mark-andrews-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=209745","title":{"rendered":"Former ND Senator Mark Andrews passes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Fargo, ND (AP) \u2014 Former ND Congressman Mark Andrews has died at age 94.<\/p>\n

The Republican was virtually unbeatable after being appointed to the U.S. House in 1963. He served eight more terms as a congressman and a term in the U.S. Senate before an upset defeat in 1986. Andrews surprised some Republicans with his criticism of some of President Ronald Reagan\u2019s economic policies, once saying that \u201cpeople in North Dakota didn\u2019t elect me to be a rubber stamp.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi) \u2013 Gov. Doug Burgum released the following statement today regarding former U.S. Sen. Mark Andrews, who passed away Saturday, Oct. 3, at age 94. Andrews represented North Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981 and in the U.S. Senate from 1981 to 1987.<\/p>\n

\u201cMark Andrews was a longtime family friend, a dedicated public servant and an unflinching champion for North Dakota for more than two decades in Congress,\u201d Burgum said. \u201cWhether he was fighting on behalf of our state\u2019s farmers, supporting our military during the Cold War or working hard to keep the federal budget in check, Mark always had the best interests of North Dakotans at heart. Kathryn and I extend our prayers and deepest condolences to the Andrews family as they mourn their loss and celebrate Mark\u2019s incredible life and legacy. We will miss him dearly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fargo, ND (AP) \u2014 Former ND Congressman Mark Andrews has died at age 94. The Republican was virtually unbeatable after being appointed to the U.S. House in 1963. He served eight more terms as a congressman and a term in the U.S. Senate before an upset defeat in 1986. Andrews […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":209749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209745"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209758,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209745\/revisions\/209758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}