title: Payson Sherman
text: # Payson Sherman
  
  Payson Alton Sherman (August 14, 1889 – October 5, 1977) was a Canadian politician and a two-term Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.
  
  ## Background
  
  He was born in Scotstown, Quebec on August 14, 1889 and married Margaret Muir in New Hampshire in 1914.
  
  ## Member of the legislature
  
  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.
  
  ## Mayor
  
  He served as school board member, city councillor and from 1947 to 1957 Mayor of Hampden, Quebec in the Eastern Townships.
  
  ## Retirement
  
  He co-founded the Compton County Historical Society in 1959 and died on October 5, 1977.
  
  