Biography of John Levi Sheppard, Bowie County, Texas

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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.

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