Oil on canvas, Laurel Boeck, 2006, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives

BOEHLERT, Sherwood Louis, 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.