Henry Sherman Boutell

Henry Sherman Boutell

Henry Sherman Boutell (born March 14, 1856 in Boston , Massachusetts , †  March 11, 1926 in Sanremo , Italy ) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1911 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Boutell was a great-great-grandson of US Senator Roger Sherman (1721-1793) and a great-nephew of Secretary of State William M. Evarts (1818-1901). In 1863 he came to Chicago , where he received a classical school education. Boutell studied at Northwestern University in Evanston until 1874 and then until 1876 at Harvard University . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1879, 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 . He was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives in 1884 and 1885 .

After the death of MP Edward D. Cooke , Boutell was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the by-election due for the sixth seat of Illinois , where he took up his new mandate on November 23, 1897. After six re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1911 . Since 1903 he represented the ninth electoral district of his state there. During his time as Congressman, the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell . From 1907 to 1911 he was chairman of the Department of Navy's Expenditures Control Committee. In June 1908, Boutell took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, where William Howard Taft was nominated as a presidential candidate. He was also a curator of Northwestern University between 1899 and 1911. In 1910 he was no longer elected to Congress.

In 1911, Henry Boutell was appointed American envoy to Portugal to succeed Henry Gage . But he did not take up this office. Instead, he held the position between 1911 and 1913 as the successor to Laurits S. Swenson in Switzerland . From 1914 to 1923, Boutell was Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University . He died on May 11, 1926 while on a trip to Italy.

Web links

• Henry Sherman Boutell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry Sherman Boutell in the database of Find a Grave (English)