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  Sherman, John
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AffiliationRepublican  
 
NameJohn Sherman
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Mansfield, Ohio , United States
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Born May 10, 1823
DiedOctober 22, 1900 (77 years)
ContributorU Ole Polecat
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Jan 05, 2015 04:29pm
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Info(brother to Civil War Union General William Tecumseh Sherman) a Representative and a Senator from Ohio; born in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, on May 10, 1823; attended the common schools and an academy in Ohio; left school to work as an engineer on canal projects; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1844 and began practice in Mansfield, Ohio; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1855, to March 21, 1861, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Thirty-sixth Congress); elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1861 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Salmon P. Chase; reelected in 1866 and 1872 and served from March 21, 1861, until his resignation on March 8, 1877; chairman, Committee on Agriculture (1863-67), Committee on Finance (1863-65, 1867-77); appointed Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of President Rutherford Hayes in March 1877, and served until March 1881; again elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1881 in the place of James A. Garfield, who had been elected President of the United States; reelected in 1886 and 1892 and served from March 4, 1881, until his resignation on March 4, 1897; Republican Conference chairman (1884-1885, 1891-1897); President pro tempore (1885-1887); chairman, Committee on the Library (1881-87), Committee on Foreign Relations (1885-93, 1895-97); appointed Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President William McKinley and served from March 1897, until his resignation in April 1898; retired to private life; died in Washington, D.C., October 22, 1900; interment in Mansfield Cemetery, Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio.


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Father Charles R. Sherman 0000-
Brother William Tecumseh Sherman 1820-1891

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RACES
  03/05/1897 U. S. Secretary of State Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  00/00/1893 OH US Senate Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  06/25/1888 US President - R Convention Lost 17.24% (-20.43%)
  00/00/1887 OH US Senate Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  06/06/1884 US President - R Convention Lost 2.91% (-49.56%)
  01/18/1881 OH US Senate - Special Election Won 62.22% (+24.44%)
  06/08/1880 US President - R Convention Lost 9.91% (-23.04%)
  03/09/1877 Secretary of Treasury Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  00/00/1873 OH US Senate Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  00/00/1867 OH US Senate Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  03/00/1861 OH US Senate - Special Election Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  10/09/1860 OH District 13 Won 57.16% (+14.33%)
  02/01/1860 US House Speaker Lost 8.58% (-0.38%)
  08/12/1858 OH District 13 Won 57.05% (+14.11%)
  10/14/1856 OH District 13 Won 58.42% (+16.84%)
  10/10/1854 OH District 13 Won 59.79% (+19.59%)
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