John Sherman, Senator Who Wrote The Sherman Anti-trust Act

1890, Minnesota. 11 ½” x 7 ¼” stock certificate for 50 shares. Brown/Black. Top center vignette of a steam locomotive departing a station. Issued to and signed on attached stock power by John Sherman nicknamed "The Ohio Icicle" (1823 - 1900) U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Ohio during the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century. He served as both Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State and was the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act. His older brother was General William Tecumseh Sherman of Civil War fame. Diamond cut, stamp and punch cancellations not affecting Sherman's signature. Very fine.