Melvin M. Boothman

Boothman in 1887

Melvin Morella Boothman (October 16, 1846 – March 5, 1904) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Born near Bryan, Ohio, 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 Michigan University at Ann Arbor in 1871. He was admitted to the bar 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.

Source

• Melvin M. Boothman at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

External links

• Melvin M. Boothman at Find a Grave

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Name	Boothman, Melvin Morella
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Date of birth	October 16, 1846
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Date of death	March 5, 1904
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