{{Short description|American lawyer and politician (1860–1898)}} {{More citations needed|date=December 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Sherman Hoar | image = Sherman Hoar.png | caption = | state = [[Massachusetts]] | district = {{ushr|MA|5|5th}} | term_start = March 4, 1891 | term_end = March 3, 1893 | preceded = [[Nathaniel P. Banks]] | succeeded = [[Moses T. Stevens]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1860|7|30}} | birth_place = [[Concord, Massachusetts]], U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1898|10|7|1860|7|30}} | death_place = Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | relations = | children = | occupation = | profession = Attorney | office2 = [[United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts#U.S. Attorneys|United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts]] | term_start2 = 1893 | term_end2 = 1897 | predecessor2 = [[Frank D. Allen]] | successor2 = [[Boyd B. Jones]] | office3 = | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | order3 = | office4 = | predecessor4 = | successor4 = | signature = | website = | footnotes = | education = [[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[LLB]]) }}
'''Sherman Hoar''' (July 30, 1860 – October 7, 1898) was an American lawyer and politician who was a member of [[United States Congress|Congress]] representing [[Massachusetts]], and [[U.S. District Attorney]] for Massachusetts. As a young man he was the model for the head of the [[John Harvard (statue)|John Harvard statue]] now in the Harvard Yard.
== Education and career ==
[[File:John Harvard Statue right side of head.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.6|Hoar was the {{shy|inspi|ra|tion}} for the face of the [[John Harvard statue]].]] [[File:Sherman Hoar younger cropped.png|thumb|left|upright=0.6|Hoar in his student days]]
Hoar graduated from [[Harvard College]] in 1882 and [[Harvard Law School]] in 1884. While at Harvard he sat as the model for the head of the [[John Harvard (statue)|John Harvard statue]] which now sits in [[Harvard Yard]]. In 1885 he was admitted to the bar of [[Middlesex County, Massachusetts|Middlesex County]] and commenced practicing law in [[Concord, Massachusetts]].
Though from a prominent Republican family Hoar was a [[Mugwump]], leading the Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts during [[Grover Cleveland]]'s 1884 campaign, and was a member of the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] in the [[Fifty-second U.S. Congress]] (1891–1893). He was U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, 1893–1897.
Hoar was director of the [[Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association]] during the [[Spanish–American War]], and served{{clarify|date=October 2012}} in several US Army hospitals in the South. He was also a great believer in [[public education]]. He once said: "Our [[Education in the United States|public school system]] is what makes this Nation superior to all other Nations—not the [[U.S. Army|Army]] or the [[U.S. Navy|Navy]] system. [[Military]] display . . . does not belong here."{{where|date=October 2012}}<ref>Beato, Greg (2010-12-16) [http://reason.com/archives/2010/12/16/face-the-flag Face the Flag], ''[[Reason Magazine|Reason]]''</ref>
== 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.<ref>Los Angeles Herald (1898-10-09) [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH18981009.2.126], ''[[Los Angeles Herald]]''</ref>
== Family == Sherman Hoar came from a line of distinguished Massachusetts and New England politicians, lawyers and esteemed public servants. He was * the great-grandson of [[Roger Sherman]], a signer of both the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]] and the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]]; * the grandson of Congressman [[Samuel Hoar]]; * the son of [[U.S. Attorney General]], Congressman and [[Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court]] Justice [[Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar]]; * the father of Massachusetts State Senator and Assistant Attorney General [[Roger Sherman Hoar]]; * a nephew of U.S. Senator [[George Frisbie Hoar]]; and U.S. Representative [[George Merrick Brooks]]; * the cousin to Massachusetts Congressman [[Rockwood Hoar]].
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==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Sherman Hoar}} * [https://books.google.com/books?id=papRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA345 Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England] By Thomas Townsend Sherman * [http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-051.html Baldwin-Greene-Gager family of Connecticut] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114121559/http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-051.html |date=2020-01-14 }} at [[Political Graveyard]] * [http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-055.html Sherman-Hoar family] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821175459/http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-055.html |date=2019-08-21 }} at [[Political Graveyard]] * {{CongBio|H000657}} {{s-start}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box | state=Massachusetts | district=5 | before=[[Nathaniel P. Banks]] | after=[[Moses T. Stephens]] | years=March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893}} {{end}}
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