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Underwood was prosecuting attorney of Perry County 1917 - 1921 ; then an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; eventually elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress and the six succeeding Congresses serving from March 4 , 1923 , to April 10 , 1936 , when he resigned upon appointment as a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, and served until his retirement on June 30 , 1967 . He was chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions (Seventy-second through Seventy-fourth Congresses). He died on his farm near New Lexington, Ohio, March 8 , 1972 , and was buried nearby in Maplewood Cemetery.