Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1912 — VICE-PRESIDENT SHERMAN IS DEAD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

VICE-PRESIDENT SHERMAN IS DEAD

Passed Away at His Hbme In Utica, N. Y. at 9:42 Wednesday Night After Long Sickness. \ ' “Suftny Jim,” as Vice President James Schoolcraft Sherman was familiarly known in official Washington, died at his home at Utica, N. Y„ at 9:42 Wednesday night, after a long sickness. Uraemic poisoning was the cause of death. It has been decided that the election commissioners have no right at this late hour to put another candidate

on the ticket and President Taft will make the race alone. The legal complication is taxing the legal minds of the nation. It is probable that the electors, if a majority of them should be for the republican ticket,' can name a vice-president. The following milestones in the life of Mr. Sherman show his rise to prominence: Born Oct. 24, 1855, at Utica, N. Y. Graduated from Hamilton College in 1878. Admitted to the New York bar in 1880. . • Married Miss Carrie Babcock, of East Orange, N. J., Jan. 26, 1881. -* Elected Mayor of Utica in 1884 at the age of 29, youngest in city’s history. Elected to the Fiftieth Congress in 1887 and re-elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-third and to each succeeding Congress to the Sixtieth in 1909. Chairman of the New York State Republican convention in 1985, 1900 and 1908. Chairman of Republican national congressional committee in 1906. ' Elected Vice President of the United States Nov. 3f 1908. Renominated for Vice President by Republican national convention at Chicago June 22, 1912. Died Oct 30, 1912.

James S. Sherman.