Charles Lee Underhill
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 9th district
In office
March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1933
Preceded byAlvan T. Fuller
Succeeded byRobert Luce
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office
1902–1903
1908–1913
1917–1918
Personal details
BornJuly 20, 1867
Richmond, Virginia
DiedJanuary 28, 1946 (aged 78)
New York, New York
Political partyRepublican

Charles Lee Underhill (July 20, 1867 – January 28, 1946) was a United States representative and anti-suffrage activist from Massachusetts. He was born in Richmond, Virginia on July 20, 1867. He moved to Massachusetts in 1872 with his parents, who settled in Somerville. He attended the common schools, was office boy, coal teamster, and a blacksmith. He subsequently engaged in the manufacture and sale of hardware in that city.

Underhill served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1902-1903 and 1908-1913), and was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1917 and 1918.

Underhill as a young state Representative

Underhill was opposed to women voting.[1] He was a state delegate of the Men's Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage to Washington DC in 1913.[2]

He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1933). He was chairman of Committee on Claims (Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses) and the Committee on Accounts (Seventy-first Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination to the Seventy-third Congress. He then engaged in real estate development in Washington, D.C. from 1933 until he retired in 1941. Underhill died in New York City on January 28, 1946. His interment was in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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References

  1. ↑ Committee on Woman Suffrage. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. December 1913. p. 59.
  2. ↑ "Urge president suffrage cause". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. December 4, 1913. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
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