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.

Senator George Hoar of Massachusetts, another author of the Sherman act, said a person:

Economist Thomas DiLorenzo notes that Senator Sherman sponsored the 1890 William McKinley tariff just three months after the Sherman Act, and agrees with The New York Times which wrote on October 1, 1890: " That so-called Anti-Trust law was passed to deceive the people and to clear the way for the enactment of this Pro-Trust law relating to the tariff.

John Sherman, nicknamed " The Ohio Icicle " ( May 10, 1823 – October 22, 1900 ), was a U. S. Representative and U. S. Senator from Ohio during the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century.

After Senator Salmon P. Chase resigned to become the Secretary of the Treasury, Sherman was elected to fill his seat.

Senator Ewing secured an appointment for the 16-year-old Sherman as a cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he roomed and became good friends with another important future Civil War General, George H. Thomas.

" However, in May, he offered himself for service in the regular army, and his brother ( Senator John Sherman ) and other connections maneuvered to get him a commission in the regular army.

While he was at home, his wife Ellen wrote to his brother, Senator John Sherman, seeking advice.

Sherman wrote both to his brother, Senator John Sherman, and to General Grant vehemently repudiating any such promotion.

* The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between General Sherman and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, edited by Rachel Sherman Thorndike ( New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1894 ) – edited letters to his brother, Senator John Sherman, from 1837 to 1891.

* The Sherman Letters: Correspondence between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891 ( posthumous, 1894 )

* Digitized collection of letters between William Sherman and his brother Senator John Sherman

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

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.

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.

His opponent, incumbent Republican Senator Arthur R. Robinson, accused Minton of playing " Santa Claus " by trying to give everyone " presents ".

Minton was made a member of a special Lobby Investigation Committee chaired by Senator Hugo Black, that was set up to look into questionable lobbyist groups.

In 1937, Senator Black was appointed to the Supreme Court and left the Senate, and Minton secured his post as chair of the committee.

Democratic Senator Edward R. Burke led an effort to defeat the measure and privately accused Minton of damaging the Democrats ' cause, which led Minton to leave the Lobby Investigation Committee.

Minton was involved in many such exchanges, including a particularly fierce one with Republican Senator Lester J. Dickinson in March 1936.

( 1977 ) " Sherman Minton: New Deal Senator.

Burton was the last serving member of Congress appointed to the Court, although former Senator Sherman Minton was appointed in 1949.

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

* 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.

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.

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.

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.

* Photograph, Sherman Minton Home, Georgetown, Indiana.

* Sherman Minton Senate identification card with signature, University of Louisville.

* Photograph, Sherman Minton grave site

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