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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsCharles Lee UNDERHILL
(1867-1946)
UNDERHILL, Charles Lee, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Richmond, Henrico
County, Va., July 20, 1867; moved to Massachusetts in 1872 with his
parents, who settled in Somerville; attended the common schools;
was office boy, coal teamster, and blacksmith; subsequently engaged
in the manufacture and sale of hardware in Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass.; served in the State house of representatives in
1902, 1903, 1908-1913, 1917, and 1918; member of the State
constitutional convention in 1917 and 1918; elected as a Republican
to the Sixty-seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses (March
4, 1921-March 3, 1933); chairman, Committee on Claims (Sixty-ninth
and Seventieth Congresses), Committee on Accounts (Seventy-first
Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1932 to the
Seventy-third Congress; engaged in real estate development in
Washington, D.C., from 1933 until he retired in 1941; died in New
York City, January 28, 1946; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery,
Cambridge, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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