Isaac R. Sherwood

Isaac R. Sherwood

Isaac Ruth Sherwood (born August 13, 1835 in Stanford , Dutchess County , New York , †  October 15, 1925 in Toledo , Ohio ) was an American politician . Between 1873 and 1925 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives several times .

Career

Isaac Sherwood attended public schools in his home country. He then graduated from the Hudson River Institute in Claverack , the Antioch College in Yellow Springs (Ohio) and the Ohio Law College in Poland . In 1857 he published the Williams County Gazette in Bryan . In 1860 he became a probate judge in Williams County . During the Civil War Sherwood served in the Union Army , where he rose to lieutenant colonel or brevet brigadier general. After the war he settled in Toledo, where he published the Toledo Daily Commercial newspaper . He has also written political editorials for the Cleveland Leader . Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party at the time . Between 1868 and 1870 he served as Secretary of State of Ohio. In 1869 he founded the State Bureau of Statistics of the State of Ohio .

In the congressional election of 1872 Sherwood was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Ohio , where he succeeded John Armstrong Smith on March 4, 1873 . Since he renounced another candidacy in 1874, he was initially only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1875 . Between 1875 and 1884 Sherwood was the owner and editor of the Toledo Journal newspaper . He was elected probate judge in Lucas County in 1878 and 1881 . From 1885 to 1895 he published the Canton News-Democrat newspaper. Politically, he switched first to the Greenback Party and then to the Democrats in the 1870s .

In the elections of 1906 Sherwood was elected in the ninth district of his state as the successor to James H. Southard in Congress, where he was able to complete seven terms after six re-elections until March 3, 1921. During this time the First World War fell . Sherwood was against American entry into this war and also voted against conscription. Between 1911 and 1919 he was chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions . During his tenure as a member of Congress, the 16th , 17th , 18th and 19th amendments were ratified. In 1920, Sherwood was not re-elected.

In the elections of 1922 Isaac Sherwood was elected for the last time to Congress, where he replaced William W. Chalmers on March 4, 1923 , who had succeeded him two years earlier. In 1924 he ran again for Congress, despite his now high age of 89 years. He was defeated by his predecessor Chalmers. After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Sherwood withdrew from the public. He died on October 15, 1925 in Toledo at the age of 90.

Web links

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• Isaac R. Sherwood in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Isaac R. Sherwood in the database of Find a Grave (English)