Famous People with Name Sherman

Sherman Otis Houghton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sherman Otis Houghton: was an American politician from California. He served as the deputy clerk of the Supreme Court of California in 1854, the same year he was elected to the San Jose Common Council; he was elected the fourth mayor of San Jose, and served from 1855 to 1856. H

Max Ray Sherman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Max Ray Sherman: is a former member of the Texas State Senate from Amarillo, Texas. He was also president of West Texas A&M University in Canyon, and dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.In November 1970, he was elect

Buren Robinson Sherman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Buren Robinson Sherman: was the 12th Governor of Iowa, serving from 1882 to 1886. He studied law after his family moved to Iowa in 1855 and was admitted to the bar in 1859. Sherman then practiced law in Vinton, Iowa in 1860, but only until 1861, when he signed up with the 13th I

Raj Sherman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Raj Sherman: is an Alberta politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Edmonton-Meadowlark, formerly as a Progressive Conservative. On March 15, 2011, Sherman declared his candidacy for the leadership of the Alberta Liberal Party. He was elected leader of the Liberal Party on September 10, 2011.

Louis Ralph (Bud) Sherman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Louis Ralph (Bud) Sherman: is a retired politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Canadian House of Commons during the 1960s, and was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1969 to 1984, serving as a cabinet minister in the government of Sterling Lyon. In the Canadian federal election of 1965, Sherman was elected to the House of Commons for the riding of Winnipeg South as a Progressive Conservative, defeating Liberal Margaret Konantz by about 3,000 votes (Sidney Green of the New Democratic Party was third). Sherman served as an opposition MP for three years, before losing his seat to high-profile Liberal candidate James Richardson by over 8,000 votes in the federal election of 1968. Following his loss, he wrote a regular column in the Winnipeg Tribune. He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1969, defeating his NDP opponent by more than 1,500 votes in the south-end Winnipeg riding of Fort Garry. The NDP formed a minority government after the election, and Sherman again sat as an opposition member. In the election of 1973, he was narrowly re-elected over Liberal candidate Henry Janzen.