Sherman Hoar

Sherman Hoar
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromMassachusetts's5thdistrict
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
Education	Harvard University(BA,LLB)
Profession	Attorney

Sherman Hoar(July 30, 1860 – October 7, 1898) was an American lawyer and politician who was a member ofCongressrepresentingMassachusetts,andU.S. District Attorneyfor Massachusetts. As a young man he was the model for the head of theJohn Harvard statuenow in the Harvard Yard.

Education and career

Hoar was the inspi­ra­tion for the face of theJohn Harvard statue.

Hoar in his student days

Hoar graduated fromHarvard Collegein 1882 andHarvard Law Schoolin 1884. While at Harvard he sat as the model for the head of theJohn Harvard statuewhich now sits inHarvard Yard. In 1885 he was admitted to the bar ofMiddlesex Countyand commenced practicing law inConcord, Massachusetts.

Though from a prominent Republican family Hoar was aMugwump,leading the Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts duringGrover Cleveland's 1884 campaign, and was a member of theHouse of Representativesin theFifty-second U.S. Congress(1891–1893). He was U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, 1893–1897.

Hoar was director of theMassachusetts Volunteer Aid Associationduring theSpanish–American War,and servedin several US Army hospitals in the South. He was also a great believer inpublic education.He once said: "Ourpublic school systemis what makes this Nation superior to all other Nations—not theArmyor theNavysystem.Militarydisplay... does not belong here. "

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.

Family

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

• the great-grandson ofRoger Sherman,a signer of both theConstitutionand theDeclaration of Independence;
• the grandson of CongressmanSamuel Hoar;
• the son ofU.S. Attorney General,Congressman andMassachusetts Supreme Judicial CourtJusticeEbenezer Rockwood Hoar;
• the father of Massachusetts State Senator and Assistant Attorney GeneralRoger Sherman Hoar;
• a nephew of U.S. SenatorGeorge Frisbie Hoar;and U.S. RepresentativeGeorge Merrick Brooks;
• the cousin to Massachusetts CongressmanRockwood Hoar.

External links

• Works by or about Sherman Hoarat theInternet Archive
• Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, EnglandBy Thomas Townsend Sherman
• Baldwin-Greene-Gager family of ConnecticutArchived2020-01-14 at theWayback MachineatPolitical Graveyard
• Sherman-Hoar familyArchived2019-08-21 at theWayback MachineatPolitical Graveyard
• United States Congress."Sherman Hoar (id: H000657)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.