Morris Sheppard
John Morris Sheppard ( born May 28, 1875 in Wheatsville, Morris County, Texas, † April 9, 1941 in Washington DC ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Texas in both chambers of the U.S. Congress.
After completing his school education, Morris Sheppard graduated in 1895 from the University of Texas at Austin, where he spent two years later obtained his law degree. Another legal conclusion was followed in 1898 at Yale before coming to the Bar Association in Pittsburg a common law firm operating after recording with his father. John Levi Sheppard had previously been prosecutor and judge; In 1899 he then moved as representative of the Democrats, a House of Representatives of the United States.
In the same year Morris Sheppard relocated to Texarkana. After his father's death on 11 October 1902, he stepped to the by-election to Congress about its mandate and was victorious. After that, he was re-elected five times, before he resigned in order to apply for a seat in the U.S. Senate. This had previously taken Rienzi Melville Johnston acting head who had resigned Joseph Weldon Bailey. In the House, Sheppard was one of the Chairmen of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.
The election to the Senate designed Sheppard also victorious. There he was one of the decisive supporters of the temperance movement. He was the author of the 1916 Sheppard Bone -Dry Act, a law that extended the alcohol prohibition in the District of Columbia, and brought in the Senate Resolution 18, a constitutional amendment, with the nationwide Prohibition was introduced. From 1929 to 1933 he was also the Whip of the Democratic Group. He also served as chairman of numerous committees, including the Committee on Military Affairs.
Morris Sheppard died in April 1941 in the office. To succeed Andrew Jackson Houston, the son, was appointed by Sam Houston. The by-election was won by the Texas Governor W. Lee O'Daniel against eventual U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, at that time a member of the House of Representatives. Sheppard's widow Lucille married in the year after his death the second senator from Texas, Tom Connally. His grandson Connie Mack sat from 1989 to 2001 for Florida Senate, whose son of the same is a member of the House of Representatives in Washington since 2005; both belong in contrast to her grandfather to the Republicans. Two other grandsons, Richard Sheppard Arnold and Morris Sheppard Arnold, were senior judges on the federal appeals court.