Sherman Hoar

Sherman Hoar
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 5th district
In office
March 4, 1891  March 3, 1893
Preceded by Nathaniel P. Banks
Succeeded by Moses T. Stevens
United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts
In office
1893–1897
Preceded by Frank D. Allen
Succeeded by Boyd B. Jones
Personal details
Born (1860-07-30)July 30, 1860
Concord, Massachusetts
Died October 7, 1898(1898-10-07) (aged 38)
Concord, Massachusetts
Political party Democratic
Alma mater Harvard College in 1882, and Harvard Law School in 1884.
Profession Attorney

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.

Education and career

Hoar graduated from Harvard University 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 (18911893). 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.”[1]

Death

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.[2]

Family

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

References

  1. Beato, Greg (2010-12-16) Face the Flag, Reason
  2. Los Angeles Herald (1898-10-09) , Los Angeles Herald

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Nathaniel P. Banks
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 5th congressional district

March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893
Succeeded by
Moses T. Stephens
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