Morris Sheppard

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Morris Sheppard

John Morris Sheppard (* 28. May 1875 in Wheat Ville , Morris County , Texas ; †  9. April 1941 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ), of the state of Texas in both houses of the US Congress took .

After completing his schooling, Morris Sheppard graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1895 , where he also took his law exam two years later. Another law degree followed in 1898 at Yale , before he ran a joint law firm with his father after joining the Pittsburg bar association. John Levi Sheppard had previously served as prosecutor and judge; In 1899 he moved to the United States House of Representatives as a Democratic MP .

In the same year, Morris Sheppard moved to Texarkana . After his father's death on October 11, 1902, he ran for his congressional mandate by-election and was victorious. He was then re-elected five times before stepping down to run for a seat in the US Senate . Rienzi Melville Johnston had previously taken this position on a temporary basis for the resigned Joseph Weldon Bailey . In the House of Representatives, Sheppard was, among other things, chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds .

Sheppard also made the election to the Senate victorious. There he was one of the staunch supporters of the abstinence movement . He was the author of the 1916 Sheppard Bone-Dry Act , a law that extended alcohol prohibition to the District of Columbia , and introduced the Senate resolution on the 18th Amendment to the Constitution , which introduced nationwide prohibition. From 1929 to 1933 he was also the Whip of the Democratic Group. He has also chaired numerous committees, including the Committee on Military Affairs .

Morris Sheppard died in office in April 1941. Successor was Andrew Jackson Houston , son of Sam Houston appointed. The Texas Governor W. Lee O'Daniel won the by-election against the later US Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson , a member of the House of Representatives at the time. Sheppard's widow Lucille married the second Senator from Texas, Tom Connally , the year after his death . His grandson Connie Mack sat for Florida in the Senate from 1989 to 2001 , and his son of the same name has been a member of the House of Representatives in Washington since 2005; Unlike her grandfather, both are Republicans . Two other grandchildren, Richard Sheppard Arnold and Morris Sheppard Arnold , became senior judges on the federal appeals court .

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SURNAME Sheppard, Morris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sheppard, John Morris (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Wheatville , Texas
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1941
Place of death Washington, DC