SHEPPARD, John Levi (father of Morris Sheppard), a Representative from Texas; 
born in Bluffton, Chambers County, Ala., April 13, 1852; moved with his mother to 
Morris County, Tex.; attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to 
the bar and commenced practice in Daingerfield, Morris County, Tex., in 1879; 
district attorney of the fifth judicial distort of Texas 1882-1888; district judge 
of the same district 1888-1896; temporary chairman of the Democratic State 
convention in 1892; appointed delegate to the Bimetallic Convention in Chicago 
in 1893; delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1896; 
served as the Texas member of the presidential notification committee which met 
in New York City in August 1896; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth and 
Fifty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1899, until his death in 
Texarkana, Bowie County, Tex., October 11, 1902; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.

Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949


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