Henry Riggs Rathbone

Henry Riggs Rathbone (1923)

Henry Riggs Rathbone (born February 12, 1870 in Washington, DC , †  July 15, 1928 in Chicago , Illinois ) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1928 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Riggs Rathbone was the son of Major Henry Reed Rathbone (1837–1911), who accompanied President Abraham Lincoln to Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865 and sat in his box during the fatal assassination attempt on the President. In 1882 Rathbone Sr. became the American consul in Hanover . A year later, in a fit of mental derangement, he murdered his wife, Clara, daughter of US Senator Ira Harris , who was also present at Lincoln's murder. Henry Reed Rathbone spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital in Hildesheim .

His son attended the Phillips Academy in Andover ( Massachusetts ) until 1887 and then studied at Yale University until 1892 . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and his admission to the bar in 1894, he began to work in this profession in Chicago. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In June 1916 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, where Charles Evans Hughes was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the 1922 congressional election , Rathbone was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington in the 27th  constituency of Illinois, where he succeeded Winnifred Sprague Mason Huck on March 4, 1923 . After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on July 15, 1928 . Between 1925 and 1927 he was chairman of the Ministry of Commerce's Expenditure Control Committee. At the time of his death, he had already been nominated for another re-election.

Web links

• Henry Riggs Rathbone in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry Riggs Rathbone in the database of Find a Grave (English)