Background
He was born in Richmond, Virginia on July 20, 1867.
He was born in Richmond, Virginia on July 20, 1867.
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. 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 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 Washington, District of Columbia from 1933 until he retired in 1941. Underhill died in New York City on January 28, 1946.
His interment was in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Underhill served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1902-1903 and 1908-1913), and was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1917 and 1918.