SHERMAN, James Schoolcraft [1855-1912] -- American politician, legislator
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United States, vPOTUS 27 He received an academic and collegiate education, graduating from Hamilton college in the class of 1878;
and was admitted to the bar in 1880, becoming a member of the firm of Cookinham and Sherman.
He was elected mayor of Utica, N.Y., in 1884, as a republican, receiving a substantial majority in a democratic city.
He was chairman of the republican state convention in Saratoga in 1895; and was elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.
[Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography]
Vice president of the United States 1909-1912.
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- The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Sherman
- Grave of James Schoolcraft Sherman
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