George Carter Sherman Jr. (July 12, 1911 – February 3, 1986) [1] was an American polo player.
George Sherman began playing polo at age 15. His father, George Carter Sherman Sr., was a well-known polo player and founder of the National Indoor Polo Association. He graduated from Yale University in 1934. [2] [3] He was captain of the polo team in his freshman year, and he promoted college polo alongside Robert A. Graviss. [4]
Sherman served as senior vice president of Rollins Burdick Hunter, the insurance broker, and chairman of its office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. [5]
Sherman served as chairman of the Indoor Polo Association, and the United States Polo Association in Lexington, Kentucky from 1960 to 1966. [2] [4] He was also involved with the Gulfstream Polo Club in Lake Worth, Florida. [2]
Sherman is credited as a co-founder — alongside H. Jeremy Chisholm, Leverett S. Miller, and Philip L. B. Iglehart — of the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame, which opened in 1988. [2] [6] [7] [8] [9] He was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 1998. [10]
Sherman donated a painting by Chester Harding, Portrait of a Lady, to the Yale University Art Gallery. [3]
Sherman died of leukemia in New York on February 3, 1986, at the age of 74. [11]