RARE "Massachusetts Congressman" Sherman Hoar Clipped Signature Todd Mueller COA

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Up for auction a VERY RARE "Massachusetts Congressman" Sherman Hoar Clipped Signature Inscribed Waltham Massachusetts.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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Sherman Hoar
(July 30, 1860 – October 7, 1898), was an American lawyer, member of
Congress
representing
Massachusetts
, and
U.S. District Attorney
for Massachusetts. As a young man he acted as model for the head of the
John Harvard statue
now in the Harvard Yard.
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
which now sits in
Harvard Yard
. In 1885 he was admitted to the bar of
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
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
[
in several US Army hospitals in the South. He was also a great believer in
public education
. He once said: "Our
public school system
is what makes this Nation superior to all other Nations—not the
Army
or the
Navy
system.
Military
display . . . does not belong here."
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.
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
Constitution
and the
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
·
the cousin to Massachusetts Congressman
Rockwood Hoar
.