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See also:SHERMAN, See also:JOHN (x823-1900) , See also:American financier and statesman, a younger See also:brother of See also:General W. T. Sherman, was See also:born at See also:Lancaster, See also:Ohio, on the See also:roth of May 1823. He began the study of See also:law at See also:Mansfield, Ohio, and was admitted to the See also:bar in 1844. For ten years he practised his profession with success, and with only casual See also:interest in politics.. His associations and predilections were with the Whigs, and he was a delegate to the See also:National See also:Convention that nominated General Zachary See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor in 1848. Upon the See also:repeal of the See also:Missouri See also:Compromise by the See also:Kansas-See also:Nebraska See also:Bill in 1854, he joined the See also:great popular See also:movement in Ohio against the policy represented by this bill, and was elected to See also:Congress in the autumn of that See also:year as an " See also:Anti-Nebraska See also:man. In the summer of the next year he took an active See also:part in the formal organization of the Republican party in the See also:state, and at the opening of Congress in See also:December began a See also:long career of public service. As a member of the See also:House (1855-1861); he quickly manifested the qualities which characterized his whole See also:political See also:life. Though a thorough and avowed See also:partisan, he was within the party the counsellor of moderate rather than extreme See also:measures, and thus gained on the whole a position of great See also:influence. He was a member of the See also:committee sent by the House in 1856 to investigate the troubles in Kansas, and drafted the See also:report of the See also:majority. In 1859 he was the Republican See also:candidate for See also:Speaker of the House, but was obliged, after a contest that lasted two months, to withdraw, largely because of the recommendation he had inadvertently given to an anti-See also:slavery See also:book, The Impending Crisis of the See also:South (1857), by See also:Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-19o9). He became, however, chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, and was instrumental in the enactment of the See also:Morrill. See also:Tariff See also:Act of r86o. In See also:March 1861 he took his seat in the See also:Senate, to which he had been elected to succeed See also:Salmon P. See also:Chase, when the latter became secretary of the See also:treasury. As senator he sat continuously until he became secretary of the treasury in 1877. His interest and efficiency in See also:financial legislation in the House led to his See also:appointment on the Senate Committee of See also:Finance, and after 1867 he was chairman of this influential committee. He thus became associated with the enactment of all the great fiscal See also:laws through which the See also:strain of See also:war and of reconstruction was sustained. He gave See also:earnest support to the Legal See also:Tender Act, and the substitution of the national for the state banking See also:system. When after the end of the war the question of financial readjustment came up, he vigorously opposed Secretary See also:Hugh McCulloch's policy of retiring the legal tenders, and urged a different See also:plan for effecting the resumption of specie payments. On the questions See also:relating to political reconstruction and the
policy of See also:President See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, he supported his party, though opposed to its See also:Radical leaders. He warmly advocated the insertion in the Reconstruction Acts of a See also:provision ensuring the See also:early termination of military See also:government; and he opposed the See also:impeachment of President Johnson, though he voted for conviction on the trial. During the administrations of President See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant his leadership in shaping financial policy became generally recognized. The Resumption Act of 1875, which provided for the return of specie payments four years later, was largely his See also:work both in inception and in formulation, and his appointment to the See also:head of the Treasury See also:Department by President See also:Hayes in 1877 enabled him to carry the policy embodied in the law to successful See also:execution. His See also:administration of the department, in circumstances of great difficulty arising out of the " greenback" agitation and the adverse political complexion of Congress, won him high distinction as a financier.
At the end of the Hayes administration he was again elected to the Senate from Ohio and held his seat until 1897. During this See also:period he was largely concerned in the enactment of the Anti-See also:Trust Law of 189o, and of the so-called Sherman Act of the same year, providing for the See also:purchase of See also:silver and the issuing of Treasury notes based upon it. This latter Act he approved only as a means of escaping the See also:free coinage of silver, and he supported its repeal in 1893. In 188o and 1888 he aspired actively to the Republican nomination for the See also:presidency, but failed to obtain the requisite support in the Convention. During the last years of his senatorial career he was chairman of the Senate Committee on See also:Foreign Affairs. Upon the See also:accession of President See also:McKinley in 1897, he resigned from the Senate and became secretary of state; but under the tension of the war with See also:Spain the duties of the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office became too exacting for his strength at his See also:age, and in See also:April 1898 he resigned and withdrew into private life. Infirmities multiplied upon him, until his See also:death at See also:Washington on the 22nd of See also:October 'coo.
A selection from the See also:correspondence of John Sherman and his brother Gen. W. T. Sherman was published as The Sherman Letters in 1894. Sherman published Recollections of See also:Forty Years in the House, Senate and See also:Cabinet: an Autobiography (See also:Chicago and New See also:York, 1895). A See also:volume of Selected Speeches was published in 1879. See Life, by T. E. See also:Burton (1906). (W. A.
End of Article: SHERMAN, JOHN (x823-1900)
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