Born in
Mobile, Alabama, Sheppard attended public schools and studied law. He then was employed in the transportation department of the
Santa Fe Railroad and was an active committee member of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. He also engaged in the copper business in
Alaska and served as president and general manager of King's Beverage and King's Laboratories Corps. of California prior to 1934.
Congress Sheppard was elected as a
Democrat to the
75th United States Congress and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses. When he retired at the time of the
1964 elections, he was the dean of California's congressional delegation. During his time as a Congressman, his voting record was a mainly liberal one.
Death He died in Washington, D.C., on April 28, 1969, and was interred in
National Memorial Park in nearby
Falls Church, Virginia. == Electoral results ==