John Sherman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Sherman

American politician

Date of Birth: 10-May-1823

Place of Birth: John Sherman Birthplace, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 22-Oct-1900

Profession: lawyer, engineer, politician, diplomat

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About John Sherman

  • John Sherman (May 10, 1823 – October 22, 1900) was a politician from the U.S.
  • state of Ohio during the American Civil War and into the late nineteenth century.
  • A member of the Republican Party, he served in both houses of the U.S.
  • Congress.
  • He also served as Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State.
  • Sherman sought the Republican presidential nomination three times, coming closest in 1888, but was never chosen by the party.
  • His brothers included General William Tecumseh Sherman; Charles Taylor Sherman, a federal judge in Ohio; and Hoyt Sherman, an Iowa banker. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Sherman later moved to Mansfield, where he began a law career before entering politics.
  • Initially a Whig, Sherman was among those anti-slavery activists who formed what became the Republican Party.
  • He served three terms in the House of Representatives.
  • As a member of the House, Sherman traveled to Kansas to investigate the unrest between pro- and anti-slavery partisans there.
  • He rose in party leadership and was nearly elected Speaker in 1859.
  • Sherman was elevated to the Senate in 1861.
  • As a senator, he was a leader in financial matters, helping to redesign the United States' monetary system to meet the needs of a nation torn apart by civil war.
  • After the war, he worked to produce legislation that would restore the nation's credit abroad and produce a stable, gold-backed currency at home. Serving as Secretary of the Treasury in the administration of Rutherford B.
  • Hayes, Sherman continued his efforts for financial stability and solvency, overseeing an end to wartime inflationary measures and a return to gold-backed money.
  • He returned to the Senate after his term expired, serving there for a further sixteen years.
  • During that time he continued his work on financial legislation, as well as writing and debating laws on immigration, business competition law, and the regulation of interstate commerce.
  • Sherman was the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which was signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison.
  • In 1897, President William McKinley appointed him Secretary of State.
  • Failing health and declining faculties made him unable to handle the burdens of the job, and he retired in 1898 at the start of the Spanish–American War.
  • Sherman died at his home in Washington, D.C.
  • in 1900.

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