Ether Shepley

Ether Shepley ( born November 2, 1789 in Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; † 15 January 1877 in Portland, Maine ) was an American politician ( Democratic- Republican), who represented the state of Maine in the U.S. Senate.

In his home town of Groton Ether Shepley attended Lawrence Academy, a private school. In 1814 he graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover. In the same year he was taken after completed law studies to the bar and commenced practice in Saco. The place now lying in the state of Maine was at that time still a part of Massachusetts.

1819 Shepley became a member of the Parliament of Massachusetts. The following year he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of Maine, where the arrangements were made to accommodate the new U.S. state in the Union.

Between 1821 and 1833 acted Ether Shepley as Attorney for the District of Maine; during this time he moved to Portland. In 1832 he was elected as representative of the Jackson - wing of his party in the U.S. Senate, where he remained from March 4, 1833 until his resignation on March 3, 1836. During this time he was chairman of the committee of the Committee on engrossed bills.

He resigned his seat in order to follow the appeal to the Supreme Court of Maine; In 1848 he was the Chairman ( Chief Justice ). After he retired in October 1855 the Court, he was commissioned a year later with the revision of the State Code of Maine. As a result, he practiced as a lawyer again, before he died in Portland in 1877.

His son, George F. Shepley served as a general in the Union Army during the Civil War and was later governor of Louisiana.