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Sherman, John (Lawyer statesman was born May)

lawyer, statesman, was born May 10, 1823, in Lancaster, Ohio. He is of Anglo-Saxon ancestry.

He received an aca-- demic 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. He is the author of Recollections of Forty Years in the House,.

Senate and Cabinet; and Selected Speeches; and Reports on Taxation, 1859-78.