Charles Lee Underhill (July 20, 1867 – January 28, 1946) was a

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and anti-suffrage activist from

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. He was born in

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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

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(1902-1903 and 1908-1913), and was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1917 and 1918. Underhill was opposed to women voting. He was a state delegate of the Men's Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage to Washington DC in 1913. 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 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 in

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from 1933 until he retired in 1941. Underhill died in

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on January 28, 1946. His interment was in Mount Auburn Cemetery in

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