Henry Riggs Rathbone

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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Riggs Rathbone was the son of Major Henry Reed Rathbone (1837-1911), who accompanied the April 14, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln in Ford 's Theatre and sat during the deadly attack on the president in his box. 1882 Rathbone Sr. American Consul in Hanover. A year later he murdered in a fit of mental derangement his wife Clara, daughter of U.S. Senator Ira Harris, who had also been present at Lincoln's assassination. Henry Reed Rathbone spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital in Hildesheim.

His son went to Phillips Academy in Andover in 1887 (Massachusetts ) and then studied until 1892 at Yale University. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and his 1894 was admitted as a lawyer in Chicago, he started to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In June 1916 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated for the Charles Evans Hughes as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1922, Rathbone was elected in the 27th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Winnifred Sprague Mason Huck on March 4, 1923. After two re- elections he could remain until his death on July 15, 1928 in Congress. Between 1925 and 1927 he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Department of Commerce. At the time of his death he had been nominated for a further re-election.

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