Henry Riggs Rathbone
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Henry Riggs Rathbone (February 12, 1870 - July 15, 1928) was a Representative from Illinois was born in Washington, D.C., February 12, 1870. His father, Henry Reed Rathbone, and mother, Clara Harris, were present in the President's box during the assasination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington. His grandfather was Ira Harris, a New York senator and close friend to Lincoln.
Rathbone graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1887, from Yale University in 1892, and from the law department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1894. He was admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1916 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, and Seventieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his death. During his time in congress he served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce (Sixty-ninth Congress). He nominated for reelection in 1928 and died in Chicago on July 15, 1928. He is buried at Rosehill Cemetery.
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