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  John Sherman (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Sherman (May 10, 1823–October 22, 1900) was a Senator from Ohio and a member of the United States Cabinet.
Sherman returned to the Senate, taking the seat to which the Ohio legislature had originally elected Garfield, replacing Allen G. Thurman, in 1881, serving until 1897, when he resigned once more to join the Cabinet.
Sherman vehemently opposed the income tax proposal of 1894: "In a republic like ours, where all men are equal, this attempt to array the rich against the poor or the poor against the rich is socialism, communism, devilism." [1]
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 John S. Cooper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Sherman Cooper (August 23, 1901 - February 21, 1991) was a Republican United States senator from Somerset, Kentucky who served a total of 20 years (1946-1949, 1952-1955, 1956-1973).
He served as a member of the Warren Commission, was a captain in the United States Army and was an ambassador to India.
There is a statue in honor of him at the Fountain Square in Somerset, KY and the John Sherman Cooper Power Plant, which supplies most of the counties power is also named in his honor.
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His legacy is memorialized in the Sherman Laboratory, as a reminder of his lasting contribution to cartography, to the geography department and to the University of Washington.
John Sherman was part of the department from 1939 to 1986, for almost half a century.
John Sherman was acutely aware that the manual map production in which he excelled would be challenged by the advanced technology of quantitative measurements and analyses and subsequently by automated mapping, computer graphics and computer mapping, which ultimately emerged as Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
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 JOHN SHERMAN - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN SHERMAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
(1823-1900), American financier and statesman, a younger brother of General W. Sherman, was born at Lancaster, Ohio, on the roth of May 1823.
Sherman was published as The Sherman Letters in 1894.
Sherman published Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet: an Autobiography (Chicago and New York, 1895).
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SH/SHERMAN_JOHN.htm   (720 words)

  
 John Sherman Biography / Biography of John Sherman Biography Biography
John Sherman (1823-1900), American politician, was the most significant congressional figure in the development of American fiscal policy during the "gilded age."
John Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio, on May 10, 1823.
Sherman's failure to secure the nomination stemmed not from his political philosophy but from his inability to inspire excitement in either prominent politicians or the voters.
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 THE BLOODY BUCKET-Sherman
John worked quite a few odd jobs and on the advice of some college buddies, ended up joining the local National Guard unit which was a Military Police Company of the 28th Division.
John had no idea what to do with his life until a friend in the Guard, who was a State Trooper asked if John had thought about joining.
John was to find out that both she and his daughter had been killed by a drunken driver.
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 U.S. Treasury - Biography of Secretary John Sherman
John Sherman was nominated by President Rutherford B. Hayes to be the 32nd Secretary of the Treasury.
When Sherman accepted the nomination of President Hayes to be Secretary of the Treasury, it was for his avowed purpose of putting into operation a plan for specie (coin) resumption that he had long advocated in the Senate.
Sherman, a statesman and financial expert, believed in "pay as you go" for the government, and through his long political career which spanned 50 years, he believed that the government should redeem its obligations in gold.
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 shermanwb - sheg08
John Lawrence [Parents] was born 1528 in Essex, co Suffolk, England.
Agnes Wife Of John Lawrence was born 1523 in Rumburgh, co Suffolk, England.
Thomas Sherman [Parents] was born 1422 in Yaxley, co Suffolk, England.
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 American President
John Sherman was born in 1823 in Lancaster, Ohio.
While his brother, William Tecumseh Sherman, made a name for himself as a general during the Civil War, John Sherman served in the Senate as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and chairman of the Committee on Finance.
Sherman served only one year as secretary of state (1897-1898) and was little more than a figurehead; his assistant secretary of state, William R. Day, actually ran the department, negotiating the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands and working to prevent a war with Spain over the issue of Cuba.
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 History of the Charles Sherman Family, John, William Tecumseh & Mary Elisabeth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When John was eight years old he was sent to Mount Vernon, Ohio to live with his father’s cousin John Sherman and thereafter did not live in one place longer than four years.
It had not been an easy task to raise him and John himself said, “I was a troublesome boy, frequently involved in controversies with the teachers and sometimes punished with the switch.” He also referred to himself as a “rather wild and reckless boy at the disagreeable age of from eight to twelve years”.
John married Cecelia Stewart, the daughter of a wealthy Mansfield judge in 1848 and she proved to be a great asset to him throughout his political career.
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 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1878-1920 > Senate Service Record Set
In 1880 John Sherman was a major contender for the Republican nomination for president.
John Sherman grew up in Ohio with seven siblings, including the future Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
After his service as secretary of the treasury, Sherman returned to the Senate in 1881, ironically to replace Garfield, whose election to the Senate had been superseded by his election to the presidency.
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 Sherman, John - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Sherman, John   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He was responsible for the Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1890.
Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio, and became a lawyer 1844.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Sherman, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sherman became (1867) chairman of the Senate finance committee and played a leading role in government finance in the Reconstruction period.
He had supported the Legal Tender Act of 1862 and the National Banking Act of 1863, but he opposed Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch’s plan to retire the greenbacks in circulation and pushed a compromise plan for resuming specie payment.
Again in the Senate (1881–97), he was associated in 1890 with the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act.
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 Sherman Antitrust Act on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Sherman Act authorized the federal government to institute proceedings against trusts in order to dissolve them, but Supreme Court rulings prevented federal authorities from using the act for some years.
As a result of President Theodore Roosevelt's “trust-busting” campaigns, the Sherman Act began to be invoked with some success, and in 1904 the Supreme Court upheld the government in its suit for dissolution of the Northern Securities Company.
The Hart-Scoss-Rodino Antitrust Improvement Act (1976) made it easier for regulators to investigate mergers for antitrust violations, but few mergers were blocked during the merger boom of the 1980s, when the FTC and Justice Dept. adopted a looser interpretation of antitrust legislation.
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 Additional Reading (from Sherman, John) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Born in Lancaster, Ohio, on May 10, 1823, John Sherman was the younger brother of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman.
John Sherman set up a law practice in 1844 and quickly became active in politics.
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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 John Sherman
The report says John's heart was "healthy and unremarkable" -- John was born with a hole in his heart and it was so enlarged that it caused one side of his chest to bulge out.
Claiming to be a close relative of John's, (which wasn't true), this suspect told the funeral director that John had no children, (he had three children), and made arrangements for his body to be immediately cremated.
John's daughter, who lives out of state, called a friend of hers in Rio Rancho and asked her and another friend to post reward flyers, which they did.
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 CD Baby: JOHN SHERMAN: Far Green Country
JOHN SHERMAN has been a performer of traditional and Celtic music for the last two decades.
John has also worked occasionally with uilleann piper TODD DENMAN and, until her untimely death in spring of 2000, fellow Celtic fingerstylist CAROL BARNEY.
John's third solo album of Irish and Scottish arrangements, "Far Green Country" was released in December of 2002.
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 Sherman, John on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Again in the Senate (1881-97), he was associated in 1890 with the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act.
John Bryant, Operation HOPE's CEO, Speaks at the Chicago Board of Trade's Employee Volunteer Campaign Kick Off; CBOT Endorses Operation HOPE as Designated Charity.
John Winegard, Founder of the Winegard Company, Inducted into the 2005 Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame; Among 11 Distinguished Professionals to Join the Existing 87 Members.
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 The Case for Grace Ravens - Wife of John Sherman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Sherman [son of Grace Porter], his "cousin." The witnesses were John Sherman and [his wife] Martha Sherman.
She married first at Wattisfield, co. Suffolk, on 26 Sept. 1611 JOHN SHERMAN, who was baptized at Dedham, co. Essex, on 17 Aug. 1585, son of Henry and Susan (Lawrence) Sherman and nephew of the Edmund Sherman whose tenant Grace's father had been [and is also mentioned in Edmunds' 1599 will].
John and Martha (Palmer) Sherman had seven children, a descendant was Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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 #596: 10-30-03 THE HONORABLE RICHARD A. POSNER RECEIVES JUSTICE DEPARTMENT'S 2003 JOHN SHERMAN AWARD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Created in 1994, the John Sherman Award is presented by the Department's Antitrust Division to a person or persons for their outstanding achievement in antitrust law, contributing to the protection of American consumers and to the preservation of economic liberty.
The award is named for the author of the Sherman Act of 1890, the nation's first and foremost antitrust law.
John Sherman, a former Congressman and Senator, also served as Secretary of the Treasury from 1877 to 1881, and as Secretary of State from 1897 to 1898.
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 Captain John A. Sherman
Captain III John A. Sherman was born in Los Angeles and raised in the San Fernando Valley.
Captain Sherman is a second-generation Los Angeles police officer; his father, Glen Sherman, retired as a Lieutenant in 1980.
Captain Sherman is married with three children and is very active with his church, soccer, and the community.
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 Amazon.com: Books: How to Rock Climb: Better Bouldering (How To Climb Series)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Sherman has written an honest, humorous, and quality book that describes the nuances involved with high limit bouldering.
Of particular credit is John's painfully objective efforts at describing even those controversial elements of bouldering that exist such as cheater stones, route altering and manufacturing, etc. Don't despair John, it was the right thing to do.
John Sherman does not advocate one way or the other but does indeed get his beliefs across to the reader without appearing too evangelistic.
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 John Sherman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio, on 10th May, 1823.
A member of the Republican Party, Sherman was elected to the House of Representatives (4th March, 1855 to 21st March, 1861) and served as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
Sherman returned to the Senate (1881-97) and was responsible for the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in 1890.
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 Shermans Of Yaxley - Research Books
It may be said that this is not just a SHERMAN story, but one of all families who traveled the same paths as the Shermans, emigrating first from Germany to England, then from England to America, and finally from the east coast to the west coast.
Roy V. Sherman was a Professor Emeritus of the University of Akron in Akron, OH and researched SHERMAN and allied families in North America and England for most of his life.
Sherman's research centers on his line of Shermans, beginning with Jacob, b: 1748, and the known descendants who lived (are living) in mid-Penn.
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 Sherman, John --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
He represented Ohio in the United States Congress, first in the House of Representatives from 1854 to 1861 and then in the Senate from 1861 to 1877 and 1881 to 1897.
It was named for U.S. Senator John Sherman of Ohio, who was an expert on the regulation of commerce.
Rockefeller, John D. American industrialist and philanthropist, founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust.
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 Secretary of the Treasury - John Sherman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
    John Sherman (1823-1900) had enjoyed an illustrious career in Congress (1855-1877) before President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed him Secretary of the Treasury in 1877.
At the end of Hayes's presidency, Sherman returned to the Senate where he continued his fight against currency backed by silver.
Healy painted John Sherman from life for the Treasury Department in 1881.
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