Socrates N. Sherman
Socrates Norton Sherman (July 22, 1801 – February 1, 1873) was a U.S. Representative from New York, a physician, and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Biography
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Dr. Sherman was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress (He served from March 4, 1861 until March 3, 1863). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in the elections of 1862. During the latter half of the Civil War, Sherman mustered into the military service as a major and the surgeon of the Thirty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry. He mustered out on October 7, 1865, with the brevet rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Volunteers.[1]
After the war, Sherman resumed the practice of medicine in Ogdensburg, where he died on February 1, 1873.
References
- United States Congress. "Socrates N. Sherman (id: S000350)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2008-10-19
Notes
- ^ Congressional biography
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