|
|
Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
|
SHEPPARD, Harry Richard, a Representative from California; born in Mobile, Ala., January 10,
1885; attended the public schools; studied law; employed in transportation
department of the Santa Fe Railroad; active committee member of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen; engaged in the copper business in Alaska; president and
general manager of Kings Beverage and Kings Laboratories Corps. of California
until 1934; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and to the thirteen
succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1965); was not a candidate
for renomination in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; died in Washington,
D.C., April 28, 1969; interment in National Memorial Park, Falls Church, Va.
|