Jack Andrews
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The Rt Hon John Lawson Ormrod (Jack) Andrews DL (15 July 1903 – 12 January 1986) was a member of both the Northern Ireland House of Commons and the Northern Ireland Senate.
Son of Prime Minister John Miller Andrews he entered Parliament as MP for Mid Down in 1953, a seat which he represented until his resignation in 1964, when he was elected to the Senate where he sat until the Parliament was suspended in 1972.
He held several Cabinet positions including Minister in the Senate from 1964 and Deputy Prime Minister from May 1969. He was a contender for the position of Prime Minister on the retirement of Sir Basil Brooke, however when it became clear that Terence O'Neill had a comfortable lead over both Andrews and Brian Faulkner in the Parliamentary Party, no contest was held.
During the 1970 Bannside and South Antrim by-elections, Andrews was at the centre of the UUP's pluralist campaign against Ian Paisley's Protestant Unionism, declaring "What does Protestant Unionism mean? Does it mean that you have to put a sign over the door of the Unionist Party saying "Protestants only?""
