Sherman Hoar, U.S. Representative

Sherman Hoar

He was an American lawyer, member of Congress representing Massachusetts, and U.S. District Attorney for Massachusetts.

Contents

1 Life, political and legal career
2 Family
3 Trivia
4 References
5 External links

Life, Political and Legal Career

Hoar graduated from Harvard University in 1882, and Harvard Law School in 1884. He was admitted to the bar of Middlesex County in 1885 and commenced practice law in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

He was a member of the Fifty-second U.S. Congress, serving in the House of Representatives from March 4, 1891 through March 3, 1893. He was a Democrat from a prominent family of Republican politicians; he became a Massachusetts Mugwump leader as president of the Young Men’s Democratic Club of Massachusetts, 1884, during the presidential campaign for Democrat Grover Cleveland in 1884. Hoar was U.S. District Attorney for Massachusetts, 1893-1897.

He was director of the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association, during the Spanish-American war and served in several U.S. Army hospitals in the South.

Hoar was a great believer in public education. He once said: "Our public school system is what makes this Nation superior to all other Nations—not the Army or the Navy system. Military display . . . does not belong here.”

Family

Sherman Hoar came from a line of distinguished Massachusetts and New England politicians, lawyers and esteemed public servants.

Sherman Hoar was the great-grandson of Roger Sherman, a signer of both the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Declaration of Independence; grandson of Massachusetts U.S. Representative Samuel Hoar; son of U.S. Attorney General, Massachusetts U.S. Representative and Supreme Judicial Court Justice Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, nephew of U.S. Senator George Frisbie Hoar and first cousin of Massachusetts U.S. Representative Rockwood Hoar.

Trivia

Sherman Hoar was the model for the Daniel Chester French statue of John Harvard located in Harvard Yard, at Harvard University.

References

Beato, Greg (2010-12-16) Face the Flag, Reason

External Links

• Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England By Thomas Townsend Sherman
• Hoar-Baldwin-Foster-Sherman family of Massachusetts at Political Graveyard
• Statue Wikipedia: John Harvard Statue
• Sherman Hoar at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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