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Sherman (JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT an American)

JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT, an American public official, and vice-president of the United States, born at Utica, N. Y., in 1855. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1878, and after studying law, was admitted to the bar in 1880.

For several years he practiced his profession in Utica. He was early interested in politics and was elected chairman of the Oneida Republican County Committee while he was still a young man. In 1884-17 years. He was re-elected to the Senate, 1885, he was mayor of Utica, and from 1887 to 1891, and again from 1893 to 1909, he was a member of Congress. He served as chairman of the Republican State conventions in 1895, 1900, and 1908, and chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee in 1906. He was nominated vice-president on the ticket of William H. Taft, and was elected in 1908. He died in 1912. an