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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IllinoisBOUTELL, Henry Sherman
(1856—1926)
BOUTELL, Henry Sherman, a Representative from Illinois; born in Boston, Mass., March 14, 1856; moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1863; pursued academic studies; was graduated from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., in 1874 and from Harvard University in 1876; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1879 and commenced practice in Chicago, Ill.; member of the State house of representatives in 1884 and 1885; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward D. Cooke; reelected to the Fifty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from November 23, 1897, to March 3, 1911; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress; trustee of Northwestern University 1899-1911; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1908; appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal March 2, 1911, and to Switzerland April 24, 1911, and served until 1913, when he resigned; professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1914-1923; died while on a trip in San Remo, Italy, March 11, 1926; interment in Pine Grove Cemetery, Westboro, Worcester County, Mass.
Boutell, Henry Sherman. Charters, ordinances and other documents relating to the corporate property and franchises of the Chicago and Northern Pacific Railroad Company, the Chicago and Calumet Terminal Railway Company, and their constituent corporations, recorded prior to March 1st, 1892
. Chicago: Press of Barnard & Gunthorp, 1892.
———. A deserted village
. [Chicago]: Chicago Literary Club; [New York: The DeVinne Press], 1894.
———. The first and the last speeches for Mayor Busse in the campaign of 1907
. [Chicago?: N.p., 1907?]
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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