Henry Riggs Rathbone was a congressman from Illinois, United States of America.
Background
Coincidentally, he was born on what would have been Lincoln"s 61st birthday. Born in Washington, District of Columbia, to Major Henry Reed Rathbone and Clara Rathbone née Harris, the daughter of United States. Senator Ira Harris, he moved to Hanover, Germany, with his family in 1882 when his father was appointed consul to Hanover.
Education
G.s. Honorary Ira Harris, United States senator from New New York Father and mother were in the box at Ford’s Theatre with President Lincoln when the latter was assassinated. Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1892.
Student Albany Law School, 1893.
Bachelor of Laws, University of Wisconsin, 1894.
Career
The next year, Major Rathbone murdered young Henry"s mother and tried to kill himself as well. Despite the tragic events he lived through in his early years, Rathbone successfully graduated from Phillips Academy in 1888, from Yale University in 1892, and from the Law Department at the University of Wisconsin in 1894. He was admitted to the Bar in 1895, and commenced practicing law in Chicago, Illinois.
Rathbone later became involved in politics.
He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1916 which nominated Charles Evans Hughes for the presidency. He was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1922, and served from 1923 until his death in 1928.
Rathbone served one year as President of the Illinois State Society of Washington, District of Columbia until his death in 1928. He was interred in Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.