Socrates N. Sherman

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Socrates Norton Sherman (July 22, 1801 - February 1, 1873) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born in Barre, Washington County, Vermont, Sherman attended the grade schools and high school. He studied medicine and was graduated from Mount Castleton Medical College in 1824. He moved to Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, New York, in 1825 and engaged in the practice of medicine.

Sherman was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1862. During the Civil War was mustered into the service as major and surgeon of the Thirty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out October 7, 1865, as brevet lieutenant colonel, United States Volunteers. He resumed the practice of medicine at Ogdensburg, New York, where he died February 1, 1873. He was interred in Ogdensburg Cemetery.

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• Socrates N. Sherman at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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• Socrates N. Sherman at Find A Grave