Roger Sherman Hoar was an American state senator and assistant Attorney General, for the state of Massachusetts. He wrote and published science fiction under the pseudonym of Ralph Milne Farley.
Roger Sherman Hoar
The first installment of Hoar's novel The Radio Man took the cover of the June 1924 issue of Argosy All-Story Weekly.
The Radio Beasts, Argosy All-Story Weekly, March 1925
Cover of 1950 Avon comic adaptation of The Radio Man, art by Gene Fawcette
Sherman Hoar, was an American lawyer, member of Congress representing Massachusetts, and U.S. District Attorney for Massachusetts.
As a young man he was the model for the head of the John Harvard statue now in the Harvard Yard.
Hoar was the inspiration for the face of the John Harvard statue.