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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Boutell was a great-grandson of U.S. 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 education. Up to 1874 Boutell studied at Northwestern University in Evanston and then to 1876 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree in 1879 and its recent approval as a lawyer in Chicago, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1884 and 1885 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Illinois.

After the death of Mr Edward D. Cooke Boutell was at the due election for the sixth seat of Illinois as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 23 November 1897. After six re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1911 at the Congress. Since 1903, he represented there the ninth constituency of his state. In his time as a congressman of the Spanish-American War of 1898. Fell From 1907 to 1911 he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Navy Department. In June 1908 Boutell was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in part, on William Howard Taft was nominated as a presidential candidate. Between 1899 and 1911 he was also curator of the Northwestern University. In 1910, he was not elected to Congress.

In 1911, Henry Boutell was appointed as the successor of Henry Gage to the American ambassador in Portugal. This office, however, he did not present himself. Instead, he exercised the function between 1911 and 1913 as a successor of Laurits S. Swenson in Switzerland. From 1914 to 1923 Boutell was a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University. He died on May 11, 1926 during a trip to Italy.

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