* Sherman Minton ( 1890 – 1965 ), American politician and judge

He is honored ( along with Indiana Senator Sherman Minton ) in the Minton-Capehart federal building by the Indiana World War Memorial Plaza in Indianapolis.

* Sherman Minton, United States Attorney General and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, was born in Georgetown on October 20, 1890.

Interstate 64 came through New Albany in 1961 and led to the construction of the Sherman Minton Bridge.

The bridge was named for US Senator and later Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton who was a native of nearby Georgetown and practiced law in New Albany.

Handed down as a 6-2 decision by the Court on June 4, 1951, the judgment and a plurality opinion was delivered by Chief Justice of the United States Fred M. Vinson, who was joined by Justices Stanley Forman Reed, Sherman Minton, and Harold H. Burton.

Sherman " Shay " Minton ( October 20, 1890 – April 9, 1965 ) was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

In 1962, the Sherman Minton Bridge in southern Indiana and the Minton-Capehart Federal Building in Indianapolis were named in his honor.

Sherman Minton was born on October 20, 1890, to John Evan and Emma Livers Minton in their Georgetown, Indiana, home.

Senator Sherman Minton

In another decision, Minton was in the majority that ruled under the Sherman Antitrust Act that the New York Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company was a monopoly, ordering the company to break up its grocery business.

Minton is the eponym of the Sherman Minton Bridge, which carries Interstate 64 across the Ohio River, connecting western Louisville, Kentucky with New Albany, Indiana.

He is also the namesake of the annual Sherman Minton Moot Court Competition, held at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

* Atkinson, David N. " From New Deal Liberal to Supreme Court Conservative: The Metamorphosis of Justice Sherman Minton " Washington University Law Quarterly ( 1975 ): pp. 361 – 394.

( 1977 ) " Sherman Minton: New Deal Senator.

* Photograph, Sherman Minton Home, Georgetown, Indiana.

* Photograph, Sherman Minton grave site

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The bill was later defeated in a filibuster in the Senate when Silver Republicans in the West traded it away for the Sherman Silver Purchase Act.

In 1880, the Ohio legislature elected him to the U. S. Senate ; in that same year, the leading Republican presidential contenders – Ulysses S. Grant, James G. Blaine and John Sherman – failed to garner the requisite support at their convention.

When the Ohio off-year campaign of 1879 approached, Garfield turned his attention to securing the U. S. Senate seat for Ohio, vacated by John Sherman.

In early 1880 Garfield endorsed John Sherman for the party's Presidential nomination in exchange for Sherman's earlier support of Garfield for the Senate.

United States Senate | Sen. John Sherman ( Ohio ) | John Sherman ( Republican Party ( United States ) | R — List of United States Senators from Ohio | OH ), the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

The Sherman Antitrust Act was named after its author, Senator John Sherman, an Ohio Republican, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, who was also Rockefeller's colleague.

After being ratified in the Senate on April 8, 1890 by a vote of 51-1, the Sherman Act passed unanimously ( 242-0 ) in the House of Representatives on June 20, 1890, and was then signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison on July 2, 1890.

It was named after its author, Senator John Sherman, an Ohio Republican, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

William McKinley, an Ohio Republican and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee worked with John Sherman, the senior Republican Senator from Ohio, to create a package that could both pass the Senate and receive the President's approval.

In 1959, he was elected Minority Leader of the Senate, defeating Kentucky's more liberal Senator, John Sherman Cooper, by a vote of 20 to 14.

While the Senate Finance Committee under John Sherman disagreed, being of the opinion that the $ 356, 000, 000 was a maximum as well as a minimum, no legislation was passed to assert the Committee's opinion.

Three grandsons, Roger Sherman Baldwin, George F. Hoar, and William M. Evarts served in the U. S. Senate.

Roger Sherman, the Author of the Plan of Equal Representation of the States in the Senate, and Representation of the People in Proportion to Numbers in the House, Worcester, MA: Press of C. Hamilton, 1903.

In February 1870, Senator John Sherman authored a Senate resolution that would have recognized Cuban belligerency.

Other members of the peace commission were Lieutenant General William T. Sherman, commander of the Military Division of the Missouri ; Major General William S. Harney ( retired ), who had taken part in earlier conflicts with the Cheyenne and Sioux along the Platte River ; Brigadier General Alfred H. Terry, commander of the Military Department of Dakota ; Senator John B. Henderson of Missouri, Chairman of the Senate Indian Appropriations Committee, who had introduced the bill that created the peace commission ; Colonel Samuel F. Tappan, formerly of the First Colorado Volunteer Cavalry and a peace advocate who had led the U. S. Army's investigation of the Sand Creek massacre ; Major General John B. Sanborn, formerly commander of the Upper Arkansas District, who had previously helped to negotiate the Little Arkansas Treaty of 1865.

Foraker was determined to challenge Sherman for his Senate seat and sought assurances from Daugherty that he would continue to support him when the matter came before the legislature.

Dennison tried but failed to be elected to the United States Senate in 1861, when he was defeated by John Sherman.

From 1881 until his death, George represented Mississippi in the United States Senate, where he was recognized for his skills in debate, helped frame the future Sherman Anti-Trust Act, introduced the bill for agricultural college experiment stations, and encouraged the establishment of the Department of Agriculture.

A year later, he won a special election to the Senate to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of John Sherman.

From 1891 until 1897 he was a member of the United States Senate, in which, during President Cleveland's second term, he was recognized as the chief defender of the Administration, and he was especially active in securing the repeal of the silver purchase clause of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act.

In the Senate, Morton was considered a " moderate " Republican and voted, along with his Republican colleague John Sherman Cooper, and 80 % of the other Republican Senators, for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.