Sherwood Boehlert

A Representative from New York. Born in Utica, Oneida County, N. Y. , September 28, 1936. B. A. , Utica College, Utica, N. Y. , 1961. United States Army, 1956-1958. Staff for United States Representative Alexander Pirnie of New York, 1964-1979. Elected, county executive, Oneida County, N. Y. , 1979-1982. Delegate, New York state Republican convention, 1980. Delegate, Republican National Convention, 1980. Elected as a Republican to the Ninety-eighth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 2007). Chair, Committee on Science (One Hundred Seventh through One Hundred Ninth Congresses). Not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Tenth Congress in 2006. Died on September 20, 2021, in New Hartford, N. Y. Interment at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Whitesboro, N. Y.