BOUTWELL, GEORGE SEWALL Ameri can statesman, was born in Brookline, Mass., on Jan. 28, 1818. He was reared on a farm, and at an early age began a mercantile ca reer at Groton, Massachusetts. There he studied law and in 1836 was admitted to the bar. In 1842-44 and again in 1847-50 he served in the state house of representatives, and became the recognized leader on the Democratic side. In 1851, by means of "Free-Soil" votes, he was chosen governor, and was re-elected by the same coalition in 1852. The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill in 1854 had finally alienated him from the Democratic Party, and he became one of the founders of the new Republican Party in the state. He played an influential part in the Republican na tional convention in 186o, and in 1862 after the passage of the war tax measures he was appointed by President Lincoln the first com missioner of internal revenue, which department he organized. From 1863 to 1869 he was a representative in Congress. From 1869 to 1873 he was secretary of the treasury in President Grant's cabinet, and from 1873 until 1877 was a United States senator from Massachusetts. Under an appointment by President Hayes, he prepared the second edition of the United States Revised Statutes (1878). He opposed the acquisition by the United States of the Philippine Islands, became president of the Anti-Imperial istic League, and was a presidential elector on the Bryan (Demo cratic) ticket in i000. He died at Groton, Mass., on Feb. 28, 1905. He published various volumes, including The Constitution of the United States at the End of the First Century (1895), and Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs fairs (1902).