Sherman Hoar

Sherman Hoar

Sherman Hoar (born July 30, 1860 in Concord , Massachusetts , †  October 7, 1898 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1891 and 1893 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Sherman Hoar was the son of US Attorney General Ebenezer R. Hoar (1816–1895). He was also related to several other members of Congress. He attended the common schools and then the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter ( New Hampshire ). He then studied law at Harvard University until 1884, among other things. After his admission as a lawyer in 1885, he began to work in Concord in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1884 he led his party's youth organization in Massachusetts. He also became a curator of the Phillips Exeter Academy and a director of the American Unitarian Association .

In the congressional elections of 1890 Hoar was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded Nathaniel Prentiss Banks on March 4, 1891 . Until March 3, 1893 he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress . Between 1893 and 1897, Hoar succeeded Frank D. Allen as the state attorney for the Massachusetts District. During the Spanish-American War of 1898 , he served as the director of the Massachusetts Voluntary Aid Organization. In this capacity he worked at some military hospitals in the south. He died on October 7, 1898 in Concord, his birthplace.

His son Roger Sherman Hoar was also politically active and sat in the Massachusetts Senate . He also made a name for himself as an engineer, patent attorney and science fiction writer.

Web links

• Sherman Hoar in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Sherman Hoar in the database of Find a Grave (English)