SHERMAN, John [1823-1900] -- American politician, lawyer, statesman, Secretary of State
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Secretary of State (1897, McKinley)
Secretary of Treasury (1877-1881, Hayes)
Born May 10, 1823, in Lancaster, Ohio.
He was of Anglo-Saxon ancestry.
He received an academic education;
studied law, and was admitted to the bar May 11, 1844.
He was a delegate in the national whig conventions of 1848
and 1852,
and presided over the first republican convention in Ohio in 1855.
He was a representative in the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh congresses,
and was the republican candidate for speaker in the winter of 1859-60.
He was elected to the United States senate in March, 1861,
and re-elected in 1866 and 1872.
He was appointed secretary of the treasury in March, 1877,
and served as such during President Hayes' administration;
was again elected to the United States senate in 1880,
and was re-elected in 1886 and 1892.
He was president of the senate from 1885 till 1887;
and resigned his seat in the senate to accept the position of secretary of state in President McKinley's cabinet.
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1855 | Presided over the first Republican convention in Ohio |
1877-1881 | Secretary of Treasury |
1897 | Secretary of State |
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet Selected Speeches and Reports on Taxation, 1859-78
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