Benjamin Sherman
Member of the Michigan House of Representatives
from the St. Joseph County district
In office
November 2, 1835 – January 1, 1837
Personal details
Born1792 (1792)
Connecticut
Died1872 (aged 79–80)
Political partyDemocratic

Benjamin Sherman (1792 – 1872) was an American politician who served one term in the Michigan House of Representatives in its first session after adoption of the state constitution.

Biography

Benjamin Sherman was born in Connecticut in 1792. He settled in Genesee County, New York, and was a contractor on the Erie Canal project. He moved to Nottawa, Michigan, in 1825.[1]

He was elected as a Democrat to the Michigan House of Representatives in the first election under the state's constitution in 1835, and served through 1836.[1] He was the St. Joseph County coroner from 1833 to 1837,[2] a county supervisor in 1832, a justice of the peace from 1836 to 1846,[3] and a lieutenant colonel in the state militia in 1835.[4] He also served as the register of the United States land office at Ionia, Michigan, under Presidents Martin Van Buren and Franklin Pierce.[1] Sherman Township was named after him in 1829, and he began running a tavern there in 1831.[5]

Sherman died in 1872.[1]

Notes

References

  • Bingham, Stephen D. (1888), Early History of Michigan: With Biographies of State Officers, Members of Congress, Judges and Legislators, Lansing: Thorp & Godfrey, retrieved 2018-12-17
  • History of St. Joseph County, Michigan, Philadelphia: L. H. Everts, 1877, retrieved 2018-12-17
  • Michigan Manual (1877–78 ed.), Lansing: State of Michigan, 1877, retrieved 2018-12-17


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