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  James S. Sherman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Schoolcraft Sherman (October 24, 1855 – October 30, 1912) was a Representative from New York and the 27th Vice President of the United States.
Sherman was born in Utica, New York and graduated from Hamilton College in 1878.
Vice President Sherman died in Utica, Oneida County, New York a few days prior to the election and was replaced on the ballot by Nicholas M. Butler.
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 James - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James IV of Scotland (1473–1513) was king of Scotland from 1488 to 1513
James V of Scotland (1512–1542) was king of Scotland from 1513 to 1542
James I of Aragon (1208–1276), surnamed the Conqueror, was the king of Aragon, count of Barcelona and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276
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 James Schoolcraft Sherman
Sherman served (1887–91, 1893–1909) as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a skillful parliamentarian.
Sherman was renominated in 1912 but died shortly thereafter.
James Schoolcraft SHERMAN - SHERMAN, James Schoolcraft (1855—1912) SHERMAN, James Schoolcraft, a Representative from New...
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 Search Results for "Sherman"
Sherman is said by many to be the greatest of the Civil War generals....
Sherman Antitrust Act, 1890, first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts; it was named for Senator John Sherman.
Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 1890, passed by the U.S. Congress to supplant the Bland-Allison Act of 1878.
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 James Schoolcraft Sherman --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The 27th vice-president of the United States was James Schoolcraft Sherman, who served from 1909 to 1912 in the Republican administration of William H. Taft.
James Schoolcraft Sherman was born on Oct. 24, 1855, in Utica, N.Y. His father was a newspaper editor and Democratic party politician.
The Canadian poet Francis Joseph Sherman was a minor figure in the school of nationalist poets writing in Canada in the late 19th century.
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 James S. Sherman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
James Schoolcraft Sherman (October 24, 1855 – October 30, 1912) was a (A person who represents others) Representative from (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) New York and the 27th (additional info and facts about Vice President of the United States) Vice President of the United States.
Sherman was born in (additional info and facts about Utica, New York) Utica, New York and graduated from (additional info and facts about Hamilton College) Hamilton College in 1878.
Vice President Sherman died in Utica, (additional info and facts about Oneida County, New York) Oneida County, New York a few days prior to the election and was replaced on the ballot by (additional info and facts about Nicholas M. Butler) Nicholas M. Butler.
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It was James Schoolcraft Sherman, then Chairman of Indian Affairs for the House of Representatives and later Vice President of the United States, who promoted the erection of Sherman Institute, which was named after him.
The Sherman Farm of 1l0 acres, near the present community of Home Gardens on Magnolia Avenue, was not only a training ground, but a source of food for the school.
Sherman is known to be a well-equipped school for Native American youth.
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 Colonial Hall: Biography of Rebecca Prescott Sherman
Rebecca Prescott Sherman, the gifted woman who became the second wife of Roger Sherman, the patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in Salem, the first child of Benjamin Prescott and Rebecca Minot Prescott.
For years Roger Sherman's connection with public affairs took him from home a great deal of his time, and to her fell the care of the family, not only her own eight children but of his children by his first wife.
It is also evident that although Rebecca Sherman bore no part in the Revolution, she was a worthy companion to the only man who signed all four of the great state papers: The Address to the King, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution.
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 James Schoolcraft Sherman served under President Taft   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Memorial Day is an appropriate time for greater Utica to commemorate anew its most illustrious son: James Schoolcraft Sherman, native and life-long Utican, vice president of the United States from March 4, 1909, until his death in Utica on Oct. 30, 1912.
It was Sherman who recommended to Taft that he throw out the first pitch during major league baseball's season-opening game in Washington in the spring of 1910.
James Schoolcraft Sherman, vice president of the United States, always one of our own, rose indeed through his considerable personal merits from local lad to the political height of the nation.
www.uticaod.com /archive/2004/05/31/lifestyles/33670.html   (602 words)

  
 US Vice - Presidents - James Schoolcraft Sherman
James S. Sherman was never the sponsor of any major legislation, never was the chairman of any committees, and was never elected by his fellow congressmen to any positions of leadership in the House, but he did gain their respect as a skilled and effective parliamentarian.
During Roosevelt’s midterm of 1906 Sherman was the chairman of the Republican congressional campaign committee.
Sherman politely refused the request saying it was not the duty of the Vice President to be a messenger boy.
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 Research Paper on James Schoolcraft Sherman
The nation's twenty-seventh vice president during William Howard Taft's presidency was James Schoolcraft Sherman.
Sherman remained a conservative throughout his life, even though he was Taft's running mate on a relatively progressive platform.
Sherman's continued through his vice presidency term and was renominated for another.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Sherman James Schoolcraft   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sherman, James Schoolcraft (1855-1912), United States legislator, 27th Vice-President of the United States (1909-1912), born near Utica, New York,...
Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891), United States general in the American Civil War; his successful campaign in Georgia in 1864 split the...
Longstreet, James (1821-1904), Confederate general, who distinguished himself in several battles of the American Civil War.
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 SOY Newsletter: Articles From September 2000
In 1878, James began his study of the law in the office of Beardsley, Cookinham and Burdick and was admitted to the bar in 1880.
Socrates Norton SHERMAN was born in the town of Barre in Washington Co., VT on July 22nd, 1801; the eldest of five sons, of Asaph and Sophia (NORTON) SHERMAN.
SHERMAN participated in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam in Sept. 1862; and the battle of Fredericksburg in Dec. 1862.
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 Sherman, James (Schoolcraft)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Admitted to the New York bar in 1880, Sherman practiced law in Utica and was active in Republican Party affairs.
In 1884 he was elected mayor of Utica, N.Y. Sherman served 10 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1887 and 1909, rising to the post of chairman of the House Committee on Indian Affairs.
In 1908 Sherman was elected vice president on the Republican ticket with Taft.
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Sherman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sherman, Carl — of Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y.; Manhattan,
Sherman, Roy V. — of Akron, Summit County, Ohio.
Sherman, Socrates Norton (1801-1873) — of New York.
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 Moopuna: Term Papers on James Schoolcraft Sherman
Sherman was not a brilliant student but he was greatly distinguished as a debater by his professors and his peers.
His father sparked James interest in politics, and chose to be a Republican against his father's advice.
Sherman's first political victory was his election as mayor of Utica in 1884 at the age of 29, making him the youngest mayor in the city's history.
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 Open Directory - Society:History:By Region:North America:United States:Vice Presidents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He was elected vice president on the Democratic ticket with James Polk in 1844 and presided over the Senate during the stormy days of the Mexican War and the Wilmot Proviso controversy.
James Danforth Quayle was vice president of the United States under George Bush.
James Schoolcraft Sherman was born in Utica, N. Y., on October 24, 1855.
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 TENTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
She was married to Richard Updike SHERMAN (son of Willette H. SHERMAN) on 13 Jan 1848 in Utica, New York.
Richard Updike SHERMAN was born on 26 Jun 1819 in Vernon, New York.
James Schoolcraft SHERMAN was born on 24 Oct 1855 in Utica, New York.
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 SEVENTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Richard Updike SHERMAN was born on 26 Jun 1819 in Vernon, Oneida Co., NY.
He was married to Mary Frances SHERMAN (daughter of Richard Winslow SHERMAN and Frances Lucretia WILLIAMS) on 13 Jan 1848 in Utica, Oneida Co., NY.
Willett Albert SHERMAN was born on 21 Aug 1864.
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 James   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
James I of England (James VI of Scotland)
James II of England (James VII of Scotland)
James is the common abbreviation of the Epistle of James/Letter of James in the Bible, New Testament
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 HEMENWAY MSS.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Hemenway mss., 1904-1921, are political letters and papers of James Alexander Hemenway, 1860-1923.
Career: James Alexander Hemenway was born in Boonville, Warrick County, Indiana, March 8, 1860, the son of William J.L. and Sarah (Cleland) Hemenway.
Also included in the collection are a sketch of James Alexander Hemenway, [1905]; a scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to him; a cartoon of Joseph Gurney Cannon by Clifford Kennedy Berryman; a record of the "Campaign tour of Hon.
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 James F. Drake, Inc.: An Inventory of Its Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
The collection was assembled by the firm of James F. Drake, Inc. in the 1930s and includes correspondence of Dorothy Furman, Francis W. Halsey, Temple Scott, as well as letters written by 19th-century American political and military figures, American and British literary figures, clerics, and actors.
Drake's sons Marston E. and James H. Drake entered the firm in the teens, and by the time of the senior Drake's death the firm on West 40th Street was a mecca for bookmen in the New York area.
This collection of autograph letters and autographs was assembled by the firm of James F. Drake, Inc. in the 1930s for sale by that rare-book firm; it was acquired by the Humanities Research Center upon the Ransom Center's acquisition of Drake's stock in the 1965.
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 VJForums.com - if reuters admit it...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The 60-year-old can trace his roots back to the first Massachusetts governor, John Winthrop, to every great family in Boston and to a host of royals in Europe, but has worked hard to dispel the notion he is a Northern liberal elitist.
James I, the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, ruled from 1603-1625 and is best remembered for commissioning a new translation of the Bible, the Authorized King James's Version.
James was king at the time of the 1605 gunpowder plot when Catholic Guy Fawkes and his band tried to blow up king and parliament.
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 James Sherman --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Sherman was the son of Richard Updike Sherman, a newspaper editor and Democratic Party politician, and Mary Frances Sherman.
Admitted to the New York bar in 1879, Sherman practiced law in Utica, N.Y., and was active in Republican Party affairs.
Garfield, James A. 20th president of the United States (March 4–September 19, 1881), who had the second shortest tenure in presidential history.
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 VICE PRESIDENT JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT SHERMAN - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 08/23/1909
Sherman and I and any friends we care to take in our auto come to you for a visit at once, is received this morning.
He was also President of the Utica Trust and Deposit Co., a job which he evidently kept while he was Vice President as evidenced by this letter.
Sherman was the first Republican Vice President to be renominated, but he died on October 30, 1912, six days before the election.
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 .: United States Information :. .: All American Patriots :.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sherman invited Root to speak for him and for the New York Republican gubernatorial candidate, Charles Evans Hughes, who was locked in battle with the Democratic candidate, newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst.
Sherman had risen in the House because of his mastery at presiding over the House, whose rules were more rigid and its precedents voluminous.
Sherman strongly backed Taft's decision, and when a joint congressional committee was established to investigate the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy, the vice president made sure to name only Taft supporters to the committee.
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 James S. Sherman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
James Schoolcraft Sherman (1855-1912) served as vice president of the United States from 1909 to 1912 under President William Howard Taft.
It was too late to replace him on the ballot, and more than 3 million people voted for Taft and Sherman.
Sherman's eight electoral votes were cast for Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler.
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 Taft Sherman Political Presidential Poster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This is an early 1900's presidential political poster of William Howard Taft and John Schoolcraft Sherman.
Under the c are the letters G P. On both the bottom left corners under the pictures of Taft and Sherman it states: Published by Prince, Photographer, 431 Fifth Avenue, New York.
James Schoolcraft Sherman was born October 24, 1855 in Utica, New York.
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