Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-10-30
AS STATESMAN AND POLITICIANS.
Twice in the Cabinet and Three Times
Mentioned for Pre- ident.

Twice in the Cabinet and Three Times
Mentioned for President.
| John Sherman was born in Lancaster,
Ohio, May 10, 1923. When he was 6
years old his father died, leaving widow
and eleven children, with only the home
stead ami an income of $500 a year for
| support. The family was broken up, and
| most of the children went to live with
relatives and friends. John remained
with his mother. He went to school for
year or two and in 1881 his fathers
! cousin, john Sherman, a merchant of
| Mount Vernon, took him to his home and
| offered to prepare the bog for Kenyon
College. He stayed there for four years,
but at the end of that time gave up his
school and began work as a rodman in
the improvements then being made by
the State in the Muskingum river.
In 1910 he went to Mansfield, where he
made his home the remainder of his life
and began the study of law He was
admitted to the bar on his twenty-frst
birthday. and soon made a success. In
1913 he married Margaret Stewart. Mr.
| Sherman east his first vote and made his
first speech for Clay in 1914.
In 1913 he was delegate to the Wing
| NOnNtllloI III uiidutlDulu WHICH noluI-
mated President Taylor. Sherman was
nominated aud elected one of the secre-
taries. ard took the stump. The fight
| over slavery had just been made an issue,
and on this Sherman was nominated and
elected to Congress. In 1855 he pre-
sided over the first Republican conven-
ton ever held in the State of Ohio.
| Mr. Sherman made his first speech in
Congress ia 1856, and from that time on
took prominent part in the affairs of the
House. His first financial speech was
made in 1853. In 1858 he was reelected,
and again in 1860, and had every pros
pect of being elected Speaker, but resign
ed to go to the Senate in 1861 in place
of Salmon Z. Chase, who resigned to fill
place in Lincoln's cabinet When the
war came ON Mr.. Sherman went to Ohio
| to encourage enlistments. and for time
served as volunteer without pay on the
staff of Gen. Patterson.
TIL, congressional problems of the next
four years were banking and currency
questions, and in the debates on these
Mr. Sherman took a prominent part. Dur
ing the stormy period of the reconstruc-
ton he acted as peacemaker between
Il EtStItul JoAASOn tut kotHdlt. DuI
after the veto of the civil rights bill and
other reconstruction measures he acted
heartily with the majority of his party.
Senator Sherman's greatest financial
achievements were in connection with
the resumption of specie payments in
1878. After long fight he secured the
passage of a bill providing for the re-
sumption of specie payments on Jan. /.
1879. As Secretary of the Treasury in
the cabinet of President Hayes. Mr..
Sherman was able to see the Till become
a fact.
Mr.. Sherman returned to the Senate at
the end of his service as Secretary OF
the Treasury. and remained an active
member of that body until he was called
TO fill the position of Secretary OF State
the most important position in President
McKinley's cabinet. This he resigned
in April. 1898. on account Of age and i'll
health, and since that time had taken lit
tie part in public affairs.