Sherman Minton was born on October 20, 1890, in Georgetown, Indiana. He attended Indiana University at Bloomington from September 1911 until he graduated first in his class with his bachelor's degree and law degree in September 1915. Minton graduated with a Master of Laws degree from Yale Law School in 1916, and then opened a private law practice. He attended training at the Reserve Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, from May 15 to August 8, 1917, and again from August 27 to November 26, 1917, earning his commission as a Captain of Infantry in the U.S. Army on November 27, 1917. Capt Minton served with Company D and B, 334th Infantry Regiment of the 84th Division from November 1917 to April 1918, and then with Company B, 309th Supply Train with the 84th Division at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky, and then at Camp Sherman, Ohio, from April to August 1918. He sailed with an advance Detachment of the 84th Division from the United States in August 1918, and arrived in France in September 1918. Capt Minton served with the Motor Transport Reserve at Ligny-en-Barrois, France, from October to November 1918, followed by service as Assistant Division Motor Transport Officer with the 33rd Division, American Second Army, on Occupation Duty from November 1918 to March 1919. He then attended the Sorbonne University in Paris from March to June 1919, and sailed back to the United States in July 1919. Capt Minton was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky, on August 1, 1919, and he was appointed a Captain of Infantry in the U.S. Army Reserve on December 10, 1919. His Reserve appointment expired by law on April 1, 1953, and which time he was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army Reserve. After leaving active duty, Minton practiced law from 1920 to 1930, and then served as Commissioner of the Utility Regulation Commission for the State of Indiana from 1930 to 1932. He was elected a United States Senator from Indiana in the 1934 Election, and served from January 3, 1935, to January 3, 1941, and during this time he was Senate Majority Whip from July 22, 1937, to January 3, 1941. Minton was next appointed a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, serving from May 22, 1941, until he was appointed an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court on October 11, 1949. Associate Justice Minton served on the Supreme Court from October 12, 1949, until his retirement on October 15, 1956. Sherman Minton died on April 9, 1965, and was buried at Holy Trinity Cemetery in New Albany, Indiana.