William Graves Sharp

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'William Graves Sharp' (1859-1922) was an American lawyer, manufacturer, and diplomat, born at Mount Gilead, Ohio. He graduated LL.B. from the University of Michigan in 1881 and then practiced law in Elyria, Ohio. He also engaged in the manufacture of charcoal, pig iron, and chemicals. In 1885-88 he was prosecuting attorney of Lorain Co., Ohio. He was a Democratic presidential elector in 1892, a Democratic candidate for Congress in 1900, and a member of the Sixty-first to the Sixty-third Congresses 1909-15), but resigned in 1914 to become Ambassador to France by appointment of President Wilson.

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