John Levi Sheppard

John Levi Sheppard

John Levi Sheppard (born April 13, 1852 in Bluffton , Chambers County , Alabama , †  October 11, 1902 in Texarkana , Texas ) was an American politician . Between 1899 and 1902 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In his youth, John Sheppard moved with his mother to Morris County , Texas, where he attended public schools. After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began to work in this profession in Daingerfield in 1879 . Between 1882 and 1888 he was a prosecutor in the Fifth Judicial District of Texas. He then served as a judge in the same district from 1888 to 1896. Politically, Sheppard was a member of the Democratic Party . In July 1896 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where William Jennings Bryan was first nominated as a presidential candidate. In 1892 he was temporarily president of the regional Democratic Party Congress in Texas; the following year he was a delegate to the Bimetallic Convention in Chicago.

In the congressional election of 1898 Sheppard was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of Texas , where he succeeded John W. Cranford, who died the previous day, on March 4, 1899 . After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until his death on October 11, 1902 . His son Morris (1875-1941) succeeded him and later became a US Senator . His great-grandson is born in 1940, Congressman and US Senator Connie Mack of Florida .

Web links

• John Levi Sheppard in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Levi Sheppard in the database of Find a Grave (English)