Socrates Norton Sherman (July 22, 1801 – February 1, 1873) was a

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from New York, a physician, and an officer in the

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during the

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Biography

Born in

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, Sherman attended the local grade schools and high school. He studied medicine and graduated from Castleton Medical College in 1824. He subsequently moved to

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, in 1825, and opened a medical practice. Dr. Sherman was elected as a

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to the

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(He served from March 4, 1861 until March 3, 1863). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in the elections of 1862. During the latter half of the Civil War, Sherman mustered into the military service as a

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and the surgeon of the Thirty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry. He mustered out on October 7, 1865, with the

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in the U.S. Volunteers.Congressional biography After the war, Sherman resumed the practice of medicine in Ogdensburg, where he died on February 1, 1873.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sherman, Socrates Norton 1801 births 1873 deaths People of New York (state) in the American Civil War Union Army surgeons People from Barre, Vermont Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) 19th-century American legislators