John Sherman, Secretary of State, has been connected with national legislation for more than forty years and for thirty-five years prominently. He graduated into the Senate from the House of Representatives in 1861 and immediately became identified with the financial legislation of the war, regarded since as an authority. He has been candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in a number of campaigns but seems destined, as were Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, to carry to his grave a disappointed ambition.
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