Education
Hoar graduated from Harvard University in 1882 and Harvard Law School in 1884.
United States representative politician
Hoar graduated from Harvard University in 1882 and Harvard Law School in 1884.
As a young man he acted as model for the head of the John Harvard statue now in the Harvard Yard. 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.
He was United States. Attorney for Massachusetts, 1893-1897.
Hoar was director of the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association during the Spanish-American war, and served in several United States 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 United States. Attorney General, Congressman and Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar.
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 United States. Congress (1891–1893).
