John M. Sheets

John M. Sheets

John Marion Sheets (born May 26, 1854 in Columbus Grove , Ohio , † December 29, 1940 in Palo Alto , California ) was an American lawyer and politician of the Republican Party . He was Attorney General of Ohio from 1900 to 1904 .

Career

John Marion Sheets was born in Putnam County in 1854 . His youth were overshadowed by the civil war. Sheets attended public schools. At the age of 20 he started teaching as a teacher. He attended Baldwin College in Berea ( Cuyahoga County ) from the fall of 1876 , where he graduated three years later. Sheets began studying law at the University of Michigan Law School in 1879 , where he graduated in 1881. He was admitted to the bar on April 5, 1881 and then opened his own legal practice in Ottawa, Putnam County. He was then elected a Republican judge on the Court of Common Pleas in 1893 . Its judicial district included Fulton Counties , Henry Counties, and Putnam Counties. He was nominated again in 1898, but was short of 30 votes for election.

In the summer of 1899, the Republican Party nominated him for the office of Attorney General of Ohio. He was elected in the fall of 1899. He held the post for four years. On March 22, 1882, he married Mary E. Scott. They were both students at the University of Michigan. They had five daughters. He died in 1940 in the Palo Alto Hospital.

Individual evidence

1. ^ University of Michigan Official Publication , Volume 43, University of Michigan, 1941, p. 10
2. ^ ^{A b} Elliott Howard Gilkey and William Alexander Taylor: The Ohio Hundred Year Book , FJ Heer, State Printer, 1901, pp. 342f
3. ↑ Former Ottawa Lawyer Expires, Findlay Republican Courier, December 31, 1940