Sherman Everett Burroughs

Sherman Everett Burroughs

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

Career

Sherman Burroughs attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1894 the Dartmouth College in Hanover . Between 1894 and 1897 he was secretary to Congressman Henry Moore Baker , who was then a member of the US House of Representatives for the second constituency of New Hampshire. After studying law at Columbia College and being admitted to the bar in 1896, he began working in his new profession in Manchester . Burroughs was a member of the Republican Party and from 1901 to 1902 a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives . From 1901 to 1907 he was a member of the Board of Charities and Corrections of his state. Then he was in the years 1909 and 1910 in the Equal Rights Committee ( Board of Equalization ).

After the death of Congressman Cyrus A. Sulloway , Everett Burroughs was elected in 1917 in the First District of New Hampshire as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington. Since he defended his mandate in the following two regular congressional elections, he could remain in Congress from May 29, 1917 until his death on January 27, 1923 . His term of office would have run until March 3, 1923. In November 1922, he had not run for another legislative term. His time in Congress was overshadowed by the events of World War I. In addition, nationwide women's suffrage and the prohibition law were introduced at that time . Sherman Burroughs was buried in Manchester.

Web links

• Sherman Everett Burroughs in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Sherman Everett Burroughs in the database of Find a Grave (English)