Biography of Morris Sheppard, Bowie County, Texas

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SHEPPARD, Morris (son of John Levi Sheppard), a Representative and a 
Senator from Texas; born in Wheatville, Morris County, Tex., May 28, 1875; 
attended the common schools of Daingerfield, Pittsburg, Cumby, Austin, and 
Linden; was graduated from the academic department of the University of 
Texas at Austin in 1895, from the law department of the same university in 
1897, and from the law department of Yale University in 1898; sovereign 
banker, or national treasurer, of the Woodmen of the World for many years; 
elected first president of the Texas Fraternal Congress in Dallas in 1901; 
was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Pittsburg, Camp County, 
Tex., in 1898; moved to Texarkana in 1899 and continued the practice of his 
profession; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh Congress to fill the 
vacancy caused by the death of his father, John L. Sheppard; reelected to 
the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from 
November 15, 1902, to February 3, 1913, when he resigned; elected to the 
United States Senate on January 29, 1913, to fill the vacancy in the term 
ending March 3, 1913, caused by the resignation of Joseph W. Bailey, and 
on the same day was also elected for the term commencing March 4, 1913; 
reelected in 1918, 1924, 1930, and again in 1936; did not qualify until 
February 3, 1913, the date of his resignation from the House, and served 
until his death in Washington, D.C., April 9, 1941; interment in Hillcrest 
Cemetery, Texarkana, Tex.