Isaac R. Sherwood

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(August 13, 1835 — October 15, 1925) Isaac R. Sherwood was a judge, editor, writer, and politician. Sherwood was born in Stanford, New York in 1835 and moved to Ohio to attend college at Antioch College in Yellow Springs. In 1857, he was the editor of a newspaper in Bryan, Ohio until he was elected to be a probate judge in 1860. During the Civil War, Sherwood served as a private in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was eventually promoted to lieutenant colonel. After the war, he worked as an editor and as a political writer. Sherwood also served as the Ohio Secretary of State from 1868 to 1870. He was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. After being an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Forty-Fourth Congress, Sherwood went back to working as an editor and was again elected to be a probate judge from 1878 to 1881. He was again elected to the House of Representatives, but as a Democrat, and served from March 4, 1907 to March 3, 1921, and again from March 4, 1923 to March 3, 1925. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000355]

Member of Ohio Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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