Sherwood Boehlert, a GOP Moderate at home, dies at 84

After serving in the military, he graduated from Utica College in 1961 and was a public relations manager at Wyandotte Chemical Company. Gov. He withdrew into politics as a supporter of relatively progressive New York Republicans such as Nelson A. Rockefeller and Senator Jacob K. Javits, went to work for Representative Alexander Pirnie, a provincial …