Edwin S. Underhill

Edwin Stewart Underhill (October 7, 1861 – February 7, 1929) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born in Bath, New York, Underhill attended the common schools of his native city and Haverling High School at Bath. He was graduated from Yale College, in 1881. He engaged in journalism and became editor of the Steuben Farmers' Advocate at Bath. He served as presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1888. He became editor and publisher of the Corning (New York) Daily Democrat (later the Corning Evening Leader) in 1899.

Underhill was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1915). He served as chairman of the Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions (Sixty-third Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1914. He resumed the newspaper publishing business in Corning, New York. He engaged in banking, serving as vice president of the Farmers &amp. Mechanics' Trust Co., Bath, New York. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Houston, Texas, in 1928. He died as the result of an automobile accident in Coopers, New York, February 7, 1929. He was interred in Grove Cemetery, Bath, New York.

Source

• Edwin S. Underhill at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress