Today in 1948 – President Harry S. Truman attended the dedication ceremony of the Charles O. Andrews Causeway, bisecting Lake Estelle in Orlando.. Andrews represented Florida in the U.S. Senate from 1936 until his death in 1946. He was born in Ponce de Leon on March 7, 1877, and graduated from the University of Florida, where he studied law, in 1907. Andrews had also served in the Florida Militia during the Spanish American War. President Truman was on his way from Key West when he stopped to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony, and while in Central Florida, he also received an honorary degree from Rollins College.
