Augustine Henry Shepperd

Augustine Henry Shepperd (born February 24, 1792 in Rockford , Surry County , North Carolina , †  July 11, 1864 in Salem , North Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1827 and 1851 he represented the state of North Carolina three times in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Augustine Shepperd first attended elementary school. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar, he began to work in Surry County in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In the 1820s Shepperd joined the movement around the future US President Andrew Jackson . Between 1822 and 1826 he was a member of the House of Representatives from North Carolina .

In the congressional elections of 1826 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Romulus Mitchell Saunders on March 4, 1827 . After five re-elections, he was able to complete six legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1839 . Until 1837 these were shaped by discussions about the politics of President Jackson. It was mainly about the controversial implementation of the Indian Removal Act , the nullification crisis with the state of South Carolina and banking policy. In the early 1830s, Augustine Shepperd became Jackson's political opponent. He later became a member of the Whig Party . In Congress, Sheppard was from 1829 to 1831 Chairman of the Committee to Control the Expenditures of the Department of the Navy. He then headed similar committees to control spending in the War and Foreign Ministry.

In 1838 Shepperd was defeated by the Democrat John Hill . Two years later he was able to win back his old mandate in the ninth district as a candidate for the Whigs in the congressional elections of 1840 . Until March 3, 1843, he spent another term in Congress, during which he was chairman of the Committee on Control of Public Expenditure. This legislative term was shaped by the tension between his party and the new President John Tyler .

In the elections of 1846 , Shepperd in the fourth district of North Carolina was re-elected to succeed Alfred Dockery in the US House of Representatives, where he served two final terms between March 4, 1847 and March 3, 1851. These were initially overshadowed by the events of the Mexican-American War . After his final departure from Congress, Augustine Shepperd practiced law again. He died on July 11, 1864 on his estate "Good Spring" in what is now Winston-Salem.

Web links

• Augustine Henry Shepperd in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Augustine Henry Shepperd in the database of Find a Grave (English)