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