Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-10-31
AS STATESMAN AND POLITICIAN.
Twice in the Cabinet and Three Times
Mentioned for Pre- sident.

Mentioned for President.
John Sherman wa .orn in Lancaster,
Ohio, May 10, 1922. When he was q
years old his father died. leaving a widow
and eleven children, with only the home
stead aud an income of 500 year for
support. The family was broken up. and
most OF the children went to live with
relatives and friends. Joha remained
with his rlother He went to school for
q year or two, and in 1881 his father
cousin, .Iuhn Sherman, a merchant of
Mount Vernon, took him to his home and
offered to prepare the boy for Kenyon
College. Ee 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 first
birthday, and soon made a success. In
1913 he married Margaret Stewart. Mr..
Sherman cast his first vote and made his
first speech for Clay in 1914.
In 1S4S he was delegate TO the Wing
convention in Philadelphia which nomi-
mated President Taylor. Sherman was
nominated and elected one of the secre-
tares. and 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 in 1856, and from that time on
took a prominent part in the affairs of the
House. His first financial speech was
made in 1853. In 1853 he was reelected,
and again in 1850, and had every pros
pect of being elected Speaker, but resign
ed to go to the Senate in 1861 in place
of Salmon 7. Chase. who resigned to fill
a place in Lincoln's cabinet. When the
war came on Mr.. Sherman went to Ohio
to encourage enlistments and for a time
served as a volunteer without pay on the
staff of Gen. Patterson.
The congressional problems Of the next
four years were banking and currency
questions. and in the debates on these
Mr. Sherman tool; "a prominent part. Dur
ing the stormy period of the reconstruc-
ton he acted as peacemaker between
President Johnson and the Senate, but
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
1873. After long fight he secured the
passage of a bill providing for fhe re-
sumption of specie payments Oh ian. 1,
s1ST9. As Secretary of the Treasury in
THE cabinet of President Hayes. Mr..
Sherman was able to see the bill become
b fact.
4 Mr.. Sherman returned TO the Senate at
the end of his service as Secretary of
the Treasury, and remained an active
riember of that body until he was called
TO fill the position of Secretary of State.
the most important position in President
ucKinley's cabinet. This he resigned
II April. 1893, on account of age and i'll
hath. and since that time had taken lit
liz part in public affairs,