John Elliot Sanford (November 22, 1830 โ October 11, 1907) was a U.S.politician who served as the ninth Insurance Commissioner of Massachusetts from June 29, 1866, to November 1, 1869;[1] as Chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners;[2] and, from 1872 to 1875, as the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.[2][3]
^ abcdefSinger, Isidore (1894), The Annual Cyclopedia of Insurance in the United States., 1893-1894, Hartford, Connecticut: H. R. Hayden, p. 301
^ abcdThe Boston Daily Globe (October 12, 1907), JOHN E. SANFORD DEAD. Ex-Speaker of House of Representatives Passes Away at His Home in Taunton., Boston, Massachusetts: The Boston Daily Globe, p. 13