John Levi Sheppard

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

Career

Even in his youth, John Sheppard and his mother moved into the Morris County, Texas, where he attended the public schools. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started working in 1879 in Daingerfield in this profession. Between 1882 and 1888 he was a prosecutor in the fifth judicial district of Texas. Subsequently, he served from 1888 to 1896 in the same district as a judge. Politically, Sheppard was a member of the Democratic Party. In July 1896 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in part, was first nominated on the William Jennings Bryan as their presidential candidate. In 1892, he was temporarily President of the Regional Congress of Democrats in Texas; the following year he was a delegate to the Bimetallic Convention in Chicago.

In the congressional elections of 1898 Sheppard in the fourth electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the deceased on the day before John W. Cranford on March 4, 1899. After a re-election, he could remain until his death on October 11, 1902 in Congress. His son Morris (1875-1941), succeeded him, and later became a U.S. Senator. His great-grandson is born in 1940, Congressman and U.S. Senator Connie Mack of Florida.