Charles Lee Underhill | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromMassachusetts's9th district | |
| In office March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1933 | |
| Preceded by | Alvan T. Fuller |
| Succeeded by | Robert Luce |
| Member of theMassachusetts House of Representatives | |
| In office 1902–1903 1908–1913 1917–1918 | |
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| Born | July 20, 1867 |
| Died | January 28, 1946 (aged 78) |
| Political party | Republican |
Charles Lee Underhill (July 20, 1867 – January 28, 1946) was aUnited States representative andanti-suffrage activist fromMassachusetts. He was born inRichmond, Virginia on July 20, 1867. He moved to Massachusetts in 1872 with his parents, who settled inSomerville. 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 theMassachusetts House of Representatives (1902-1903 and 1908-1913), and was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1917 and 1918.
Underhill was opposed towomen voting.[1] He was a state delegate of theMen's Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage to Washington DC in 1913.[2]
However, he held an opposite stance for thePhilippines which was then an American territory. He filed a bill in the Congress proposing that Filipina women be allowed to vote in the colony. Filipina suffragists were suspicious of the bill which they believe is a dangerous precedent of Americans interfering on Philippine affairs.[3]
He was elected as aRepublican to the Sixty-seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1933). He was chairman of the 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 inWashington, D.C. from 1933 until he retired in 1941. Underhill died inNew York City on January 28, 1946. His interment was inMount Auburn Cemetery inCambridge, Massachusetts.
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