See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

JOHN See also:

• SHERMAN
• JOHN SHERMAN (x823-1900)
• SHERMAN, ROGER (1721–1793)

SHERMAN (x823-1900)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American financier and statesman, a younger See also:

• BROTHER

brother of See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General W . T . See also:

• SHERMAN
• SHERMAN, JOHN (x823-1900)
• SHERMAN, ROGER (1721–1793)

Sherman, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• LANCASTER
• LANCASTER, HOUSE OF
• LANCASTER, JOHN OF GAUNT
• LANCASTER, JOSEPH (1778-1838)
• LANCASTER, SIR JAMES (f1. 1591—1618)
• LANCASTER, THOMAS, EARL OF (c. 1277-1322)

Lancaster, See also:

• OHIO

Ohio, on the See also:

• ROTH, JUSTUS LUDWIG ADOLF (1818-1892)

roth of May 1823 . He began the study of See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law at See also:

• MANSFIELD
• MANSFIELD, RICHARD (1857-1907)
• MANSFIELD, WILLIAM MURRAY, 1ST EARL

Mansfield, Ohio, and was admitted to the See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar in 1844 . For ten years he practised his profession with success, and with only casual See also:

• INTEREST

interest in politics .. His associations and predilections were with the Whigs, and he was a delegate to the See also:

• NATIONAL

National See also:

• CONVENTION (Lat. conventio, an assembly or agreement, from convenire, to come together)
• CONVENTION, THE NATIONAL

Convention that nominated General Zachary See also:

• TAYLOR
• TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
• TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
• TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
• TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
• TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
• TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
• TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
• TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
• TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
• TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
• TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
• TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
• TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
• TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
• TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
• TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
• TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
• TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)

Taylor in 1848 . Upon the See also:

• REPEAL (O.F. rapel, modern rappel, from rapeler, rappeler, revoke, re and appeler, appeal)

repeal of the See also:

• MISSOURI

Missouri See also:

• COMPROMISE (pronounced compromize; through Fr. from Lat. compromittere)

Compromise by the See also:

• KANSAS (known as the Sunflower State ")

Kansas-See also:

• NEBRASKA

Nebraska See also:

• BILL

Bill in 1854, he joined the See also:

• GREAT

great popular See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement in Ohio against the policy represented by this bill, and was elected to See also:

• CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress in the autumn of that See also:

• YEAR

year as an " See also:

• ANTI, or CAMPA

Anti-Nebraska See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man . In the summer of the next year he took an active See also:

• PART

part in the formal organization of the Republican party in the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, and at the opening of Congress in See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December began a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long career of public service . As a member of the See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House (1855-1861); he quickly manifested the qualities which characterized his whole See also:

• POLITICAL

political See also:

• LIFE

life . Though a thorough and avowed See also:

• PARTISAN, or PARTIZAN

partisan, he was within the party the counsellor of moderate rather than extreme See also:

• MEASURES

measures, and thus gained on the whole a position of great See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence . He was a member of the See also:

• COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee sent by the House in 1856 to investigate the troubles in Kansas, and drafted the See also:

• REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report of the See also:

• MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority . In 1859 he was the Republican See also:

• CANDIDATE

candidate for See also:

• SPEAKER

Speaker of the House, but was obliged, after a contest that lasted two months, to withdraw, largely because of the recommendation he had inadvertently given to an anti-See also:

• SLAVERY

slavery See also:

• BOOK

book, The Impending Crisis of the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South (1857), by See also:

• HINTON, JAMES (1822–1875)

Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-19o9) .

He became, however, chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, and was instrumental in the enactment of the See also:

• MORRILL, JUSTIN SMITH (1810–1898)

Morrill . See also:

• TARIFF (adapted in English from the French; the word comes through the Spanish tarifa, a list or schedule of prices, from the Arabic, ta'rifa, information, an inventory, 'arf, know-ledge)

Tariff See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act of r86o . In See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1861 he took his seat in the See also:

• SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

Senate, to which he had been elected to succeed See also:

• SALMON
• SALMON, GEORGE (1819-1904)

Salmon P . See also:

• CHASE
• CHASE, SALMON PORTLAND (1808-1873)
• CHASE, SAMUEL (1741–1811)
• CHASE, WILLIAM MERRITT (1849– )

Chase, when the latter became secretary of the See also:

• TREASURY

treasury . As senator he sat continuously until he became secretary of the treasury in 1877 . His interest and efficiency in See also:

• FINANCIAL

financial legislation in the House led to his See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment on the Senate Committee of See also:

• FINANCE

Finance, and after 1867 he was chairman of this influential committee . He thus became associated with the enactment of all the great fiscal See also:

• LAWS

laws through which the See also:

• STRAIN (through O. Fr. straindre, estraindre, mod. i treindre, from Lat. stringere, to draw tight, related to stress, stretch, string, &c.)

strain of See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war and of reconstruction was sustained . He gave See also:

• EARNEST (probably a corruption of the obsolete arles or erles, adapted from Lat. equivalent arrha, due to a confusion with the adjective " earnest," serious, O. Eng. eornust, cognate with Ger. ernst)

earnest support to the Legal See also:

• TENDER

Tender Act, and the substitution of the national for the state banking See also:

• SYSTEM

system . When after the end of the war the question of financial readjustment came up, he vigorously opposed Secretary See also:

• HUGH
• HUGH, ST

Hugh McCulloch's policy of retiring the legal tenders, and urged a different See also:

• PLAN
• PLAN (from Lat. planes, flat)

plan for effecting the resumption of specie payments . On the questions See also:

• RELATING

relating to political reconstruction and the policy of See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

President See also:

• JOHNSON, ANDREW
• JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
• JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
• JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
• JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
• JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
• JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
• JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
• JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
• JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
• JOHNSON, THOMAS

Johnson, he supported his party, though opposed to its See also:

• RADICAL (Lat. radix, a root)

Radical leaders . He warmly advocated the insertion in the Reconstruction Acts of a See also:

• PROVISION (Lat. provisio)

provision ensuring the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early termination of military See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government; and he opposed the See also:

• IMPEACHMENT (O. Fr. empeahement, empeschement, from em pecher or empescher, to hinder, Late Lat. impedicare, to entangle, pedica, fetter, pes, foot)

impeachment of President Johnson, though he voted for conviction on the trial . During the administrations of President See also:

• GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
• GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
• GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
• GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
• GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
• GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
• GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
• GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
• GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
• GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
• GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
• GRANT, U
• GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)

Grant his leadership in shaping financial policy became generally recognized .

The Resumption Act of 1875, which provided for the return of specie payments four years later, was largely his See also:

• WORK

work both in inception and in formulation, and his appointment to the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the Treasury See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

Department by President See also:

• HAYES, RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD (1822–1893)

Hayes in 1877 enabled him to carry the policy embodied in the law to successful See also:

• EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution . His See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration of the department, in circumstances of great difficulty arising out of the " greenback" agitation and the adverse political complexion of Congress, won him high distinction as a financier . At the end of the Hayes administration he was again elected to the Senate from Ohio and held his seat until 1897 . During this See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period he was largely concerned in the enactment of the Anti-See also:

• TRUST

Trust Law of 189o, and of the so-called Sherman Act of the same year, providing for the See also:

• PURCHASE

purchase of See also:

• SILVER

silver and the issuing of Treasury notes based upon it . This latter Act he approved only as a means of escaping the See also:

• FREE

free coinage of silver, and he supported its repeal in 1893 . In 188o and 1888 he aspired actively to the Republican nomination for the See also:

• PRESIDENCY

presidency, but failed to obtain the requisite support in the Convention . During the last years of his senatorial career he was chairman of the Senate Committee on See also:

• FOREIGN

Foreign Affairs . Upon the See also:

• ACCESSION (from Lat. accedere, to go to, to approach)

accession of President See also:

• MCKINLEY, WILLIAM (1843—1901)

McKinley in 1897, he resigned from the Senate and became secretary of state; but under the tension of the war with See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain the duties of the See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office became too exacting for his strength at his See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, and in See also:

• APRIL

April 1898 he resigned and withdrew into private life . Infirmities multiplied upon him, until his See also:

• DEATH

death at See also:

• WASHINGTON
• WASHINGTON (or WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE)
• WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFERRO (c. 1859– )
• WASHINGTON, BUSHROD (1762-1829)
• WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799)

Washington on the 22nd of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 'coo . A selection from the See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence of See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Sherman and his brother Gen . W . T .

Sherman was published as The Sherman Letters in 1894 . Sherman published Recollections of See also:

• FORTY

Forty Years in the House, Senate and See also:

• CABINET

Cabinet: an Autobiography (See also:

• CHICAGO
• CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF

Chicago and New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York, 1895) . A See also:

• VOLUME

volume of Selected Speeches was published in 1879 . See Life, by T . E . See also:

• BURTON, JOHN HILL (1809–1881)
• BURTON, ROBERT (1577-1640)
• BURTON, SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM (1816–f goo)
• BURTON, SIR RICHARD FRANCIS (1821-1890)
• BURTON, WILLIAM EVANS (1804-1860)

Burton (1906) . (W . A .