Lieutenant Andrew James Baldwin, M.D., USN is a US Naval Officer, physician, and triathlete. He is best known to the American television audience as the bachelor of the tenth season of the reality dating show The Bachelor dubbed The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman.
Andy Baldwin | |
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| Born | February 5, 1977 |
| Occupation(s) | Lieutenant, Doctor |
| Height | 6 ft (183 cm) |
| Relatives | Roy Baldwin and Cindy Baldwin |
Biography
Early life
Born February 5, 1977 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Roy Eugene Baldwin, Jr., a former two term Pennsylvania Republican State Representative (R-97th District), and Cynthia Laulani "Cindy" Baldwin, a high school mathematics teacher at Lancaster Country Day School, Baldwin graduated as valedictorian of Manheim Township High School's class of 1995. During high school, he played basketball, tennis, football, baseball, and was a swimmer. He has two siblings: Matthew Sayre Baldwin and Susanna Baldwin.
Education, Training and Career
Baldwin received a full NROTC scholarship to Duke University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1999.
Upon graduation, he was commissioned an ensign, United States Navy, and received a four-year Navy Health Professions Scholarship to attend the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, graduating in 2003. He subsequently completed an internship in general surgery at Naval Medical Center, San Diego, in 2004, and was a medical officer for Naval Special Warfare Group Three in Coronado from June to December 2004. He completed the Navy Undersea Medicine Training Institute and Navy Dive School in June 2005. In July 2005, he was given a three-year assignment as a member of the Navy Medical Corps to serve as Diving Medical Officer for Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Humanitarian efforts
In 2006 Baldwin was asked to serve as group surgeon for a team of fifty military personnel headed to Laos. His role during the mission was to take care of the medical needs of his team and to treat Laotian villagers in need of medical attention.[1]
Relationships
In 2005, Baldwin was featured in Cosmopolitan Magazine's "Bachelor Blowout" issue.[2]
He is engaged to The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman final rose recipient Tessa Horst.
"The Bachelor"
The tenth season of the show, The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman, premiered Monday, April 2, 2007 (9:45-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC television network. Andy proposed to Tessa Horst on the season finale, which aired May 21, 2007. She accepted his proposal, despite some claims in the media that she had not. [3]
ABC subsequently taped an "After the Final Rose" special to air the following night, May 22, 2007, which included a number of bachelorettes who had appeared on the series.