Isaac Ruth Sherwood (13 August 1835-15 October 1925) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-OH 6) from 4 March 1873 to 3 March 1875 (succeeding John Armstrong Smith and preceding Frank H. Hurd) and from OH-9 from 4 March 1907 to 3 March 1921 (succeeding James H. Southard and preceding William W. Chalmers) and from 4 March 1923 to 3 March 1925 (interrupting Chalmers' terms).
Biography[]
Isaac Ruth Sherwood was born in Stanford, New York on 13 August 1835, and he became the editor of the Williams County Gazette before becoming probate judge of Williams County in October 1860 and then Mayor of Toledo in 1861 as a Republican. He served as a Union Army lieutenant-colonel during the American Civil War, and, after the war, he moved to Toledo and edited the Toledo Daily Commercial. Sherwood went on to serve as Secretary of State of Ohio from 1869 to 1873, and he then defected to the Greenback Party before joining the Democratic Party in 1879. He went on to return to the US Congress from 1907 to 1921 and from 1923 to 1925, and he embraced isolationism during World War I and died in 1925 just months after leaving office.
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Isaac Sherwood Ruth as a general