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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IllinoisHenry Riggs RATHBONE
(1870-1928)
RATHBONE, Henry Riggs,
(grandson of Ira Harris), a Representative from Illinois; born in
Washington, D.C., February 12, 1870; was graduated from Phillips
Academy, Andover, Mass., in 1887, from Yale University in 1892, and
from the law department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison
in 1894; was admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in
Chicago, Ill.; delegate to the Republican National Convention in
1916; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, and
Seventieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his
death; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of
Commerce (Sixty-ninth Congress); nominated for reelection in 1928;
died at Chicago, Ill., on July 15, 1928; interment in Rosehill
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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