Charles L. Underhill

Charles Lee Underhill ( born July 20, 1867 in Richmond, Virginia; † January 28, 1946 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1933 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1872, Charles Underhill came with his parents to Somerville in Massachusetts, where he attended the public schools. After that he worked as a blacksmith and ironmonger. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1902 and 1918 he was several times as a delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In the years 1917 and 1918 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the State Constitution.

In the congressional elections of 1920, Underhill was in the ninth election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Alvan T. Fuller on March 4, 1921. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 six legislative periods. From 1925 to 1929 he was chairman of the Committee on Claims; 1929 to 1931 he headed the Committee on Accounts. In 1932 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Charles Underhill worked until 1941 in the real estate industry in Washington. Then he withdrew into retirement. He died on 28 January 1946 in New York.