Andy Ewing
Republican Candidate: Oklahoma's
Second Congressional District

Andy Ewing, the Republican contender for Oklahoma's second Congressional District Seat, is a 62-year-old former car dealer from Muskogee. The self-made businessman is known throughout eastern Oklahoma, where he owned and operated a two car dealerships for more than 25 years. Years of aggressive dealership ad campaigns have given Ewing unusually high name recognition for a first-time political candidate.

Among his campaign pledges, Ewing says he would "return America to its moral compass", a plan which includes ending funding for the National Endowment of the Arts, ending taxpayer-funded contraceptive programs, opposing abortion, and restoring prayer to schools. Ewing is a staunch believer in the right to own guns, and is against creating additional gun control laws. Ewing supports eliminating the marriage penalty and the estate tax, and believes that new laws are needed to "protect businesses from erroneous lawsuits".

Awards include the 1993 Wagoner Chamber of Commerce Volunteer of the Year Award, the 1989 Small Business Person of the Year Award, the 1987 Kiwanis Club Layman of the Year, and the Muskogee Boulevard Christian Church's 1985 Father of the Year award. He is a Century Club member of the Boy Scouts, and is an active member of Muskogee's Boulevard Christian Church, where he serves on the planning committee.

Ewing has served as president of the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity, and on the boards of the Kelly B. Todd Cerebral Palsy and Neuro-Muscular Foundation, the Green County Girl's Softball Association, and the local chapters of the United Way and the Red Cross. He has also been chairman of the Goodwill Industries board.

Ewing graduated from San Marcos High School in 1956 and attended Southwest Texas State University for two years. He served in the Marine Corps from 1958 to 1960, and has lived in the Muskogee area since 1971. He and his wife Audrey have been married for 34 years; they have five children and 12 grandchildren.