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This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: John Sherman 00:02:25 1 Early life and education 00:05:44 2 House of Representatives 00:07:16 2.1 Kansas 00:09:15 2.2 Lecompton and financial reform 00:11:24 2.3 House leadership 00:14:52 3 Senate 00:16:04 3.1 Financing the Civil War 00:20:22 3.2 Slavery and Reconstruction 00:24:21 3.3 Post-war finances 00:27:56 3.4 Coinage Act of 1873 00:32:08 3.5 Resumption of specie payments 00:33:56 3.6 Election of 1876 00:35:48 4 Secretary of the Treasury 00:36:46 4.1 Preparing for specie resumption 00:37:42 4.2 Bland–Allison Act 00:39:57 4.3 Civil service reform 00:42:13 5 Election of 1880 00:46:05 6 Return to the Senate 00:47:26 6.1 Garfield's assassination and the Pendleton Act 00:49:38 6.2 The Mongrel Tariff 00:51:14 6.3 Chinese immigration 00:52:57 6.4 Further presidential ambitions 00:56:14 6.5 Interstate commerce 00:57:24 6.6 Sherman Antitrust Act 00:59:36 6.7 Silver Purchase Act 01:03:05 6.8 Final years in the Senate 01:04:17 7 Secretary of State 01:06:23 8 Retirement, death, and legacy Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: increases imagination and understanding improves your listening skills improves your own spoken accent learn while on the move reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:    / @wikipediatts983   You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Socrates SUMMARY ======= John Sherman (May 10, 1823 – October 22, 1900) was a politician from the U.S. state of Ohio during the American Civil War and into the late nineteenth century. A member of the Republican Party, he served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. He also served as Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State. Sherman sought the Republican presidential nomination three times, coming closest in 1888, but was never chosen by the party. His brothers included General William Tecumseh Sherman; Charles Taylor Sherman, a federal judge in Ohio; and Hoyt Sherman, an Iowa banker. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Sherman later moved to Mansfield, where he began a law career before entering politics. Initially a Whig, Sherman was among those anti-slavery activists who formed what became the Republican Party. He served three terms in the House of Representatives. As a member of the House, Sherman traveled to Kansas to investigate the unrest between pro- and anti-slavery partisans there. He rose in party leadership and was nearly elected Speaker in 1859. Sherman was elevated to the Senate in 1861. As a senator, he was a leader in financial matters, helping to redesign the United States' monetary system to meet the needs of a nation torn apart by civil war. After the war, he worked to produce legislation that would restore the nation's credit abroad and produce a stable, gold-backed currency at home. Serving as Secretary of the Treasury in the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes, Sherman continued his efforts for financial stability and solvency, overseeing an end to wartime inflationary measures and a return to gold-backed money. He returned to the Senate after his term expired, serving there for a further sixteen years. During that time he continued his work on financial legislation, as well as writing and debating laws on immigration, business competition law, and the regulation of interstate commerce. Sherman was the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which was signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison. In 1897, President William McKinley appointed him Secretary of State. Failing health and declining faculties made him unable to handle the burdens of the job, and he retired in 1898 at the start of the Spanish–American War. Sherman died at his home in Washington, D.C. in 1900.