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Payson Alton Sherman (August 14, 1889 – October 5, 1977) was a
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politician and a two-term Member of the
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Background

He was born in
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on August 14, 1889 and married Margaret Muir in
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in 1914.


Member of the legislature

Sherman ran as a Conservative candidate in the provincial district of
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in the 1935 election and won against
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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.


Mayor

He served as school board member, city councillor and from 1947 to 1957 Mayor of
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in the
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Retirement

He co-founded the ''Compton County Historical Society'' in 1959 and died on October 5, 1977.


References

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