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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Henry R. Rathbone |
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Chicago, Illinois , United States |
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February 12, 1870
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| Died | July 15, 1928
(58 years)
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| Info | born in Washington, D.C., February 12, 1870; was graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., in 1887, from Yale University in 1892, and from the law department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1894; was admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Chicago, Ill.; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1916; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, and Seventieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his death; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce (Sixty-ninth Congress); nominated for reelection in 1928; died at Chicago, Ill., on July 15, 1928; interment in Rosehill Cemetery.
Henry Riggs Rathbone (February 12, 1870 – July 15, 1928) was a congressman from Illinois. His parents were present at Abraham Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865.
Born in Washington, D.C. to Major Henry Reed Rathbone and Clara Harris, the daughter of U.S. Senator, Ira Harris, he moved to Hannover, Germany with his family in 1882 when his father was appointed Consul to Hannover. The next year, Major Rathbone murdered young Henry's mother and tried to kill himself as well. He was admitted to an asylum for the criminally insane and Henry and his siblings were brought back to the United States to be raised by their uncle, William Harris.
Despite the heartbreaking tragedy concerning his parents, Rathbone managed to graduate from Phillips Academy in 1888, from Yale University in 1892, and from the Law Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1894. He was admitted to the Bar in 1895, and commenced practicing law in Chicago, Illinois.
Rathbone later became involved in politics. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1916 which nominated Charles Evans Hughes for the presidency. He was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1922, and served from 1923 until his death in 1928. He was interred in Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois.
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