Richard Updike Sherman (1819–1895) was a New York State politician and newspaper publisher and editor. He was also the father of US Vice President James S. Sherman.
Richard Sherman was:
Editor, Oswego Daily Times & The Herkimer Journal (1844–46)
Owner/editor of Rochester Daily Evening Gazette (1847)
Co-owner/editor Utica Morning Herald (1847–82)
Brigadier general, New York State militia (1841–57)
Clerk of the New York State Assembly, from January 7, 1851, to January 6, 1857 (Whig, later Republican)
Member of the New York State Assembly (Oneida Co., 1st D.) in 1857 (as a Republican), 1875 and 1876 (both as a Democrat)
a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1867–68
Assistant clerk, U.S. House of Representatives (1870)
Secretary, New York State Fish and Game Commission (1879–1890)
Trustee, New Hartford Cotton Company - he restocked the lakes of the Adirondack Mountains area with fish; also protected the forests from unscrupulous lumber dealers
He married his distant cousin Mary Frances Sherman. They had six children:
Richard W., a civil engineer and two-term Mayor of the City of Utica, New York
Stalham W., who died in 1894
Mary Louise, wife of Henry J. Cookinham (a law partner of James Schoolcraft Sherman)
James Schoolcraft Sherman, US Vice President
Sanford F., President, New Hartford Canning Company
Willet H., who died in New Hartford in 1868, aged six.
