Charles Daniel Sherwood | |
Order1: | 4th |
Office1: | Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota |
Term Start1: | January 11, 1864 |
Term End1: | January 8, 1866 |
Governor1: | Stephen Miller |
Predecessor1: | Henry Adoniram Swift |
Successor1: | Thomas H. Armstrong |
Order2: | 5th |
Office2: | Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives |
Term Start2: | 1863 |
Term End2: | 1863 |
Successor2: | Jared Benson |
Office3: | Minnesota State Representative from the 9th District |
Term Start3: | December 7, 1859 |
Term End3: | January 7, 1861 |
Office4: | Minnesota State Representative from the 14th District |
Term Start4: | January 8, 1861 |
Term End4: | January 6, 1862 |
Term Start5: | January 6, 1863 |
Term End5: | January 4, 1864 |
Birth Date: | 18 November 1833 |
Birth Place: | New Milford, Connecticut |
Death Place: | Chicago, Illinois |
Party: | Republican |
Residence: | Elkhorn, Minnesota |
Charles Daniel Sherwood (November 18, 1833 – July 3, 1895) was a Minnesota politician, the youngest Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives in state history, and the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota (1864–1866). He served in the Minnesota House of Representatives 1859 - 1861 and 1863 from Fillmore County, Minnesota. He was born in New Milford, Connecticut in 1833. He came to Minnesota in 1855 and was a farmer and a worker in the newspaper business. He died in Chicago, Illinois in 1895.[1] [2] In 1878, Sherwood settled in Franklin County, Tennessee and platted the community of Sherwood, Tennessee that was named for him.[3]