James Schoolcraft Sherman was an American politician who was a United States Representative from New York and the 27th Vice President of the United States , under President William Howard Taft. He was a member of the interrelated Baldwin, Hoar, and Sherman families, prominent lawyers and politicians of New England.
Sherman was born in Utica, New York, the son of Richard Updike Sherman and Mary Frances Sherman. According to Facts on File, Sherman was of the ninth generation of descendants from Henry Sherman, a line also connected to Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and William Tecumseh Sherman, the Union general during the Civil War.
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