Benjamin Sherman (Michigan politician)

Benjamin Sherman was born in Connecticut in 1792. He settled in Genesee County, New York, and was a contractor on the Erie Canal project. He moved to Nottawa, Michigan Territory in 1825.^[1]

He was elected as a Democrat to the Michigan House of Representatives in the first election under the state's constitution in 1835, and served through 1836.^[1] He was the St. Joseph County coroner from 1833 to 1837,^[2] a county supervisor in 1832, a justice of the peace from 1836 to 1846,^[3] and a lieutenant colonel in the state militia in 1835.^[4] He also served as the register of the United States land office at Ionia, Michigan, under Presidents Martin Van Buren and Franklin Pierce.^[1] Sherman Township was named after him in 1829, and he began running a tavern there in 1831.^[5]

Sherman died in 1872.^[1]

• Bingham, Stephen D. (1888), Early History of Michigan: With Biographies of State Officers, Members of Congress, Judges and Legislators, Lansing: Thorp & Godfrey, retrieved December 17, 2018
• History of St. Joseph County, Michigan, Philadelphia: L. H. Everts, 1877, retrieved December 17, 2018
• Michigan Manual (1877–78 ed.), Lansing: State of Michigan, 1877, retrieved December 17, 2018

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