Sherman Everett Burroughs

Sherman Everett Burroughs ( born February 6, 1870 in Dunbarton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire; † 27 January 1923 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1917 and 1923 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Sherman Burroughs attended the common schools and afterwards until 1894, Dartmouth College in Hanover. Between 1894 and 1897 he was secretary of Congressman Henry Moore Baker, who was at that time for the second electoral district of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives. After studying law at Columbia College and in 1896 made ​​his admission to the bar he began in Manchester to work in his new profession. Burroughs was a member of the Republican Party and from 1901 to 1902 Member of the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. From 1901 to 1907 he was a member of the welfare committee ( Board of Charities and Corrections ) his state. After that he was in the years 1909 and 1910 in the equality committee ( Board of Equalization ).

After the death of Congressman Cyrus A. Sulloway Everett Burroughs was elected in the first district of New Hampshire as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington in 1917. Because he defended his position in the following two regular congressional elections, he could remain until his death on January 27, 1923 in Congress on May 29, 1917. His term would have extended to March 3, 1923. In November 1922, he had no longer a candidate for another term of office. His time in Congress was overshadowed by the events of the First World War. In addition, the nationwide women's suffrage and Prohibition Act were introduced at that time. Sherman Burroughs was buried in Manchester.

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