Socrates N. Sherman

Socrates Norton Sherman (July 22, 1801 – February 1, 1873) was a U.S. Representative from New York, a physician, and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

He subsequently moved to Ogdensburg, New York, in 1825, and opened a medical practice.

During the latter half of the Civil War, Sherman mustered into the military service as a major and the surgeon of the Thirty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry.

[1] After the war, Sherman resumed the practice of medicine in Ogdensburg, where he died on February 1, 1873.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Socrates N. Sherman, Member of Congress from New York, as Assistant Surgeon of the 34th New York Infantry Regiment.