Payson Alton Sherman | |
Office: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Compton |
Predecessor: | William James Duffy |
Successor: | William James Duffy |
Term Start: | 1935 |
Term End: | 1939 |
Birth Date: | 14 August 1889 |
Birth Place: | Scotstown, Quebec |
Death Place: | Scotstown, Quebec |
Party: | Conservative Union Nationale |
Payson Alton Sherman (August 14, 1889 - October 5, 1977) was a Canadian politician and a two-term Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.
He was born in Scotstown, Quebec on August 14, 1889 and married Margaret Muir in New Hampshire in 1914.
Sherman ran as a Conservative candidate in the provincial district of Compton in the 1935 election and won against Liberal incumbent William James Duffy.
He joined Maurice Duplessis's Union Nationale and was re-elected in the 1936 election. He did not run for re-election in the 1939 election.
He served as school board member, city councillor and from 1947 to 1957 Mayor of Hampden, Quebec in the Eastern Townships.
He co-founded the Compton County Historical Society in 1959 and died on October 5, 1977.