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George C. Sherman, Jr.
Polo player

George C. Sherman, Jr.

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George Sherman
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George Carter Sherman, Jr. (c. 1911 – February 3, 1986) was an American polo player.

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George Sherman graduated from Yale University in 1934. He was captain of the polo team in his freshman year, and he promoted college polo alongside Robert A. Graviss.

He served as senior vice president of Rollins Burdick Hunter, the insurance broker, and chairman of its office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He served as Chairman of the Indoor Polo Association, and the United States Polo Association in Lexington, Kentucky from 1960 to 1966. He was also involved with the Gulfstream Polo Club in Lake Worth, Florida.

In 1988, he founded the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame alongside H. Jeremy Chisholm, Leverett S. Miller, and Philip L. B. Iglehart. He was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 1998.

He donated a painting by Chester Harding, 'Portrait of a Lady,' to the Yale University Art Gallery. On February 3, 1986, he died at the age of 74 of leukemia in New York.

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