William Paine Sheffield Junior

William Paine Sheffield

William Paine Sheffield junior (born June 1, 1857 in Newport , Rhode Island , †  October 19, 1919 in Exeter , Rhode Island) was an American politician . Between 1909 and 1911 he represented the first constituency of the state of Rhode Island in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Sheffield was the son of former Congressman and US Senator William Paine Sheffield . The younger Sheffield attended Phillips Academy in Andover between 1869 and 1873 and then Brown University in Providence until 1877 . After studying law at Harvard University and his admission to the bar in 1880, he began practicing his new profession in his native Newport. In 1880, he was also a government commissioner to extend American citizenship to the Narraganset Indians. He was also a member of the Advisory Board to Governor George P. Wetmore .

William Sheffield was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1885 and 1901 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Rhode Island several times, intermittently . In 1897 he was a member of a commission for the revision of the state constitution. In the congressional elections of 1908 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took the seat of Daniel Granger , who died in February 1909, on March 4, 1909 . But since he was defeated by the Democrat George F. O'Shaunessy in the next elections in 1910 , he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1911 .

In 1913, William Sheffield was a member of the Republican National Committee ; In 1918 he was again a member of a committee that reformed the Constitution of Rhode Island. Sheffield died in October 1919 and was buried in Newport.

Web links

• William Paine Sheffield in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Paine Sheffield junior in the database of Find a Grave (English)