Henry Converse Atwill

{{Short description|American politician (1872–1936)}}

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|name = Henry Converse Atwill

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|office = Massachusetts Attorney General

|governor = David I. Walsh
Samuel W. McCall

|predecessor = Thomas J. Boynton

|successor = J. Weston Allen

|term_start = 1915

|term_end = 1919

|office2 = District Attorney of Essex County, Massachusetts

|predecessor2 = W. Scott Peters

|successor2 = Michael A. Sullivan

|term_start2 = 1911

|term_end2 = 1915

|birth_date = March 11, 1872

|birth_place = Lynn, Massachusetts

|death_date = {{death date and age|1936|11|1|1872|3|11}}

|death_place = Boston, Massachusetts

|alma_mater = Boston University School of Law

|party = Republican

|profession = Lawyer

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Henry Converse Atwill (1872–1936) was an American politician who served as Massachusetts Attorney General from 1915 to 1919. He was born in Lynn in 1872.{{cite book |title=Public Officials of Massachusetts |year=1919 |publisher=The Boston Review | url=https://archive.org/stream/bostonreviewbiog1919bost#page/28/mode/2up }}

Atwill served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1896 to 1898 and the Massachusetts Senate from 1899 to 1901. From 1905 to 1910 he was an Assistant District Attorney in Essex County, Massachusetts. When District Attorney W. Scott Peters retired, Atwill was elected to succeed him. As Essex County DA, Atwill oversaw the prosecution of Joseph James Ettor, Arturo Giovannitti, and Joseph Caruso for the murder of Anna Lopizzo during the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike.{{cite news |title=HEARD GUN TALK BY ETTOR.; Reporters Testify to Incendiary Speeches of Lawrence Strike Leader. |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9900E0DF1F31E233A25753C1A9649C946396D6CF |work=New York Times |date=February 10, 1912 |access-date=2010-04-11 }}

Atwill was elected Attorney General in 1914. He resigned in 1919 and Henry A. Wyman completed his term.{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I-ISAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA72 |title=Bostonia | volume =19-21 | pages =72 |access-date=2010-04-11 |year=1918 }} He died November 1, 1936.{{cite book|title=Essex Institute Historical Collections|author1=Essex Institute|author2=Peabody & Essex Museum|date=1939|volume=75|publisher=Essex Institute Press|issn=0014-0953|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VWsjAQAAMAAJ|access-date=2015-07-19}}