Ether Shepley

Ether Shepley

Ether Shepley (* 2 November 1789 in Groton , Middlesex County , Massachusetts , †  15. January 1877 in Portland , Maine ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic-Republican Party ), of the state of Maine in the US Senate took .

In his hometown of Groton, Ether Shepley attended the Lawrence Academy , a private school. In 1814 he graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover . In the same year, after completing his law studies , he was admitted to the bar and began practicing in Saco . The place, which is now in the state of Maine, was still part of Massachusetts at that time.

In 1819 Shepley became a Member of the Massachusetts Parliament . The following year he was a delegate to the Maine Constitutional Convention, where preparations were made for the new US state to join the Union.

Between 1821 and 1833 Ether Shepley acted in the successor of William Pitt Preble as federal attorney for the judicial district of Maine; during this time he moved to Portland. In 1832 he was elected to the US Senate as the representative of the Jackson wing of his party, where he remained from March 4, 1833 until his resignation on March 3, 1836. During that time, he was Chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills .

He stepped down to take up an appeal to the Maine Supreme Court ; In 1848 he became its chairman ( Chief Justice ). After resigning from the Tribunal in October 1855, he was tasked with revising the Maine State Code the following year. As a result, he practiced again as a lawyer before he died in Portland in 1877.

His son George F. Shepley served as a general in the Union Army during the Civil War and later became governor of Louisiana .

Web links

• Ether Shepley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Ether Shepley in the database of Find a Grave (English)