Cherokee County AlArchives Biographies.....Sheppard, John Levi April 13, 1852 - October 11, 1902
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Author: Congressional Biography

John Levi Sheppard, a Representative from Texas; born in Bluffton, Cherokee 
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 district 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 in 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. 




 

Additional Comments:
bibliography; see: U. S. 57th Congress, 2d Session. Memorial Addresses on the 
Life and Character of John Levi Sheppard. Washington, D. C.: GPO, 1903. (note: 
Bluffton no longer exists, but is a ghost town. It was located in the extreme 
southeastern corner of Cherokee County, T12S R11E, between Rock Run and
Tecumseh contiguous to the Georgia state line and north of Cleburne County 
Alabama. In the modern era it is generally said to be in the Spring Garden 
Section.)

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