American politician

Sherman * (July 30, 1860 – October 7, 1898), was an American lawyer, member of Congress representing M*achusetts, and U.S. District Attorney for M*achusetts.As a young man he acted as model for the head of the John Harvard statue now in the Harvard Yard.

Contents

• 1 Education and career
• 2 Death
• 3 Family
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Education and career

* was the inspi­ra­tion for the face of the John Harvard statue. * in his student days

* graduated from Harvard College in 1882 and Harvard Law School in 1884.While at Harvard he sat as the model for the head of the John Harvard statue which now sits in Harvard Yard.In 1885 he was admitted to the bar of Middlesex County and commenced practicing law in Concord, M*achusetts.

Though from a prominent Republican family * was a Mugwump, leading the Young Men's Democratic Club of M*achusetts during Grover Cleveland's 1884 campaign, and was a member of the House of Representatives in the Fifty-second U.S. Congress (1891–1893).He was U.S. Attorney for M*achusetts, 1893-1897.

* was director of the M*achusetts Volunteer Aid *ociation during the Spanish–American War, and served in several US Army hospitals in the South.He was also a great believer in public education. He once said: "Our public school system is what makes this Nation superior to all other Nations—not the Army or the Navy system. Military display . . . does not belong here."

Death

After an illness of three weeks, Sherman * died at his home on Main street, Concord, of typhoid fever contracted while making a tour of the Southern camps as a General of the M*achusetts Volunteer *ociation.

Family

Sherman * came from a line of distinguished M*achusetts and New England politicians, lawyers and esteemed public servants. He was

• the great-grandson of Roger Sherman, a signer of both the Cons*ution and the Declaration of Independence;
• the grandson of Congressman Samuel *;
• the son of U.S. Attorney General, Congressman and M*achusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Ebenezer Rockwood *;
• the father of M*achusetts State Senator and *istant Attorney General Roger Sherman *;
• a nephew of U.S. Senator George Frisbie *; and U.S Representative George Merrick Brooks;
• the cousin to M*achusetts Congressman Rockwood *.

References

External links

• Works by or about Sherman * at Internet Archive
• Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England By Thomas Townsend Sherman
• Baldwin-Greene-Gager family of Connecticut at Political Graveyard
• Sherman-* family at Political Graveyard
• United States Congress. "Sherman * (id: H000657)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.