Edwin S. Underhill

Edwin Stewart Underhill ( born October 7, 1861 in Bath, Steuben County, New York, † February 7, 1929 in Coopers, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1915 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edwin Underhill attended the common schools and the Haverling High School in Bath. In 1881 he graduated from Yale College. He then began a career in journalism. In the following years he was in Bath and Corning out some newspapers. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In the presidential election of 1888 he was an elector for President Grover Cleveland, but lost this election.

In the congressional elections of 1910, Underhill was the 33rd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Jacob Sloat Fassett on March 4, 1911. After a re-election in the 37th district of his state, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1915 two legislative sessions. During this time, the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the nationwide introduction of the income tax and the direct election of U.S. senators. Since 1913, Underhill was chairman of the Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions.

In 1914 he gave up another Congress candidate. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he again worked in the newspaper industry in Corning. He was also active in the banking industry and was vice president of the Farmers & Mechanics' Trust Co. in Bath. In June 1928 he took part in Houston as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. He died on 7 February 1929 in Coopers in a car accident.