Francis Edwin Shober

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Francis Edwin Shober

Francis Edwin Shober (born March 12, 1831 in Winston-Salem , North Carolina , †  May 29, 1896 in Salisbury , North Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1869 and 1873 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Francis Shober attended the common schools and then the Moravian School in Bethlehem ( Pennsylvania ). He then studied until 1851 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1853, he began to work in this profession from 1854 in Salisbury. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party .

Shober served in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1862 and 1864 . In 1865 he was elected to the State Senate. In the congressional elections of 1868 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Nathaniel Boyden on March 4, 1869 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1873 . In 1872 he renounced another candidacy.

In 1875, Francis Shober was a delegate at a meeting to revise the constitution of his home state. He was a District Judge in Rowan County in 1877 and 1878 . At the same time he was employed as chief clerk in the administration of the US Senate . From 1881 to 1883 he held the office of Acting Secretary in the Senate Administration . In 1880 and 1884 Shober was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions . In 1887 he sat again in the State Senate; otherwise he practiced as a lawyer again. Francis Shober died in Salisbury on May 29, 1896. He was the father of Congressman Francis Emanuel Shober (1860-1919) from New York .

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