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Up for sale a VERY RARE "Massachusetts Congressman" Sherman Hoar Clipped Signature Inscribed Waltham Massachusetts.
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Sherman Hoar (July 30, 1860 – October 7, 1898), was
an American lawyer, member of Congress representing Massachusetts,
and U.S. District Attorney for Massachusetts.
As a young man he acted as model for the head of the John Harvard statue now in the Harvard
Yard. Hoar graduated from Harvard
College in 1882 and Harvard Law School in 1884. While at Harvard he
sat as the model for the head of the John Harvard statue which now sits in Harvard Yard.
In 1885 he was admitted to the bar of Middlesex
County and commenced practicing law in Concord, Massachusetts. Though from a
prominent Republican family Hoar was a Mugwump,
leading the Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts during Grover
Cleveland's 1884 campaign, and was a member of the House of Representatives
in the Fifty-second U.S. Congress (1891–1893). He
was U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, 1893-1897. Hoar was director of the Massachusetts
Volunteer Aid Association during the Spanish-American
war, and served[in several US Army hospitals in the
South. He was also 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." After an illness of
three weeks, Sherman Hoar died at his home on Main street, Concord, of typhoid
fever contracted while making a tour of the Southern camps as a General of the
Massachusetts Volunteer Association. Sherman Hoar came from a line of
distinguished Massachusetts and New England politicians, lawyers and esteemed
public servants. He was
·
the great-grandson of Roger Sherman, a signer of
both the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence;
·
the grandson of Congressman Samuel Hoar;
·
the son of U.S. Attorney General, Congressman and Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Justice Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar;
·
the father of Massachusetts State
Senator and Assistant Attorney General Roger Sherman Hoar;
·
a nephew of U.S. Senator George Frisbie Hoar; and
·
the cousin to Massachusetts
Congressman Rockwood Hoar.
