Sherman Everett Burroughs (February 6, 1870 – January 27, 1923) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.
[2] Elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress in a special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Cyrus A. Sulloway, Burroughs was reelected to the two succeeding Congresses and served from (May 29, 1917 – January 27, 1923).
He didn't run for reelection to the Sixty-eighth Congress in 1922, and died in office.
Burroughs died in Washington, D.C., on January 27, 1923, ten days before his 53rd birthday and reportedly of congestion of the lungs caused by "an illness with the grippe[3] and is interred at Pine Grove Cemetery in Manchester, New Hampshire.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress