Melvin Morella Boothman (October 16, 1846 – March 5, 1904) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
Ohio
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.
Born near
Bryan, Ohio
Bryan is a city in, and the county seat of, Williams County, Ohio, United States. It is located in the state's northwestern corner, southwest of Toledo, Ohio, Toledo. The population was 8,729 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.
Histo ...
, Boothman attended the public schools.
He engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Enlisted in Company H,
Thirty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, January 4, 1864.
He served through the Atlanta campaign.
He was graduated from the law department of the
University of Michigan
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at Ann Arbor in 1871.
He was
admitted to the bar
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and commenced practice in Bryan, Ohio.
Boothman was elected treasurer of Williams County in 1871 and reelected in 1873.
Boothman was elected as a
Republican to the
Fiftieth and
Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1891).
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1890.
He resumed the practice of law in Bryan, Ohio, and died there March 5, 1904.
He was interred in Fountain City Cemetery.
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1846 births
1904 deaths
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio
People from Bryan, Ohio
People of Ohio in the American Civil War
Union army soldiers
University of Michigan Law School alumni
Ohio lawyers
19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives