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John Sherman (May 10, 1823 – October 22, 1900) was an American congressman and senator from Ohio during the Civil War and after. He was the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, signed into law by Benjamin Harrison. His brothers included General William Tecumseh Sherman, Judge Charles Taylor Sherman, and Hoyt Sherman, a banker. As a Republican senator, he worked to restore the nation's credit abroad and produce a stable, gold-backed currency at home. Serving as Secretary of the Treasury under Rutherford B. Hayes, he helped to end wartime inflationary measures and oversee a law allowing dollars to be redeemed for gold. He returned to the Senate after his term expired, working on financial legislation and writing and debating laws on immigration, competition law, and interstate commerce. In 1897, he was appointed Secretary of State by President William McKinley, but due to failing health, he retired in 1898. (This article is part of a featured topic: United States presidential election, 1880.)