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Lincoln C. (Lincoln Clarke) Andrews
1867–1950
A career Army officer who later became one of the most visible federal officials of the Prohibition era, he wrote about military leadership with the authority of long experience. His life moved from West Point and overseas campaigns to Washington policymaking and public debate.
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Manpower
by Lincoln C. (Lincoln Clarke) Andrews
About the author
Born in Owatonna, Minnesota, in 1867, Lincoln Clarke Andrews graduated from West Point in 1893 and built a long career in the U.S. Army. He served in the Spanish-American War, the Philippine-American War, and World War I, rising to the rank of brigadier general.
After retiring from the Army, he entered federal administration and became Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in 1925. In that role he oversaw Prohibition enforcement, placing him at the center of one of the most controversial national experiments of the 1920s.
Andrews also wrote on military organization and leadership, including works such as Fundamentals of Military Service and Manpower. That mix of field experience, administrative responsibility, and practical writing gives his books a direct, informed tone that still reflects the concerns of early twentieth-century American military life.