Andrew P. Ireland

A Representative from Florida. Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, August 23, 1930. Attended private schools in Cincinnati. Graduated, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. , 1948. B. S. , Yale University, 1952. Graduate studies, Columbia University, New York City, 1953-1954. Graduated, Louisiana State University, School of Banking of the South, 1959. Consultant. Businessman. Joined Barnett National Bank in Jacksonville, Fla. , 1954. President, chairman, chief executive officer, American National Banks of Winter Haven, Cypress Gardens, and Auburndale, Fla. , 1962-1968. Senior vice president, director, chief executive officer, Barnett First National Bank of Jacksonville, Winter Haven, Cypress Gardens, and Auburndale, Fla. , 1968-1970. Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Jacksonville branch, 1966-1968. Winter Haven city commissioner, 1966-1968. Delegate, United Nations General Assembly, 1981. Elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses. On July 5, 1984, switched party affiliation and continued in office as a Republican. Reelected as a Republican to the Ninety-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1977-January 3, 1993). Was not a candidate for renomination in 1992 to the One Hundred Third Congress. Died on October 20, 2024, in Sarasota, Fla.