William Paine Sheffield, Jr.

William Paine Sheffield junior ( born June 1, 1857 in Newport, Rhode Iceland, † October 19, 1919 in Exeter, Rhode Iceland ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1911 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Sheffield was the son of the former congressman and U.S. Senator William Paine Sheffield. The younger Sheffield attended 1869-1873 the Phillips Academy in Andover, and then until 1877 the Brown University in Providence. After studying law at the Law School of Harvard University and its made ​​in 1880 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in his native town of Newport. In 1880 he was also a government representative who should extend U.S. citizenship to the Narragansetindianer. He also served on the senior staff of Governor George P. Wetmore.

William Sheffield was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1885 and 1901 he was several times intermittently, Member of the House of Representatives from Rhode Iceland. In 1897 he was part of a commission for the revision of the State Constitution. In the congressional elections of 1908 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he occupied the seat of the late Daniel Granger in February 1909 on March 4, 1909. But since he Democrat George F. O'Shaunessy defeated at the next election in 1910, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1911.

In 1913, William Sheffield was a member of the Republican National Committee; In 1918 he was again a member of a committee of the Constitution of Rhode Iceland reformed. Sheffield died in October 1919 and was buried in Newport.