Roger L. Sherman (October 7, 1940 – July 14, 2024) was an American politician, farmer and schoolteacher from

Hodgdon, Maine Hodgdon is a rural town in Aroostook County, Maine, Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The town borders the province of New Brunswick, Canada to the east and Houlton, Maine, Houlton to the north. Hodgdon's population was 1,290 at the 2020 ...

. Sherman was a Republican member of the

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and

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. Sherman served in the

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from 1998 to 2018.https://ballotpedia.org/Roger_Sherman Sherman graduated with a B.A. from the now-defunct

Ricker College Ricker College was a small college located in Houlton, Maine, United States. It opened in and closed in . It began as Houlton Academy in 1848, before being subsequently renamed Ricker Classical Institute in 1887. It became Ricker Junior Colleg ...

in Houlton, a master's degree in chemistry from the

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, and a

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from the

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. He was born, raised and lived in

. Sherman served as vice-chair of the rural caucus as a state representative. As a state senator, Sherman served on the Criminal Justice and Public Safety; Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry; and Judiciary committees, as well as the sub-committees on Elections, and Children and Families.Senator Roger L. Sherman
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