Career
During his latter part of House service he succeeded Shady Wall of Ouachita Parish as the chairman of the House Retirement Committee. He had one brother, the late Morby "Bob" Sheridan. He served in the United States Army during World World War World War II He was affiliated with the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Masonic lodge, and the Order of the Eastern Star.
He was a member and deacon of the Angie Baptist Church.
He was a president of the Washington Parish Fair Board. Sheridan’s legislative tenure coincided with that of legendary State Senator B.B. "Sixty" Rayburn, Senior, of Bogalusa.
Until 1968, he and two other members served in an at-large district including Washington Parish. Sheridan was defeated for an eighth term in the legislature in the nonpartisan blanket primary in 1987 by the Democrat, later Republican, Jerry Thomas, a physician from Franklinton, who was then serving as the coroner of Washington Parish.
Thomas polled 9,266 votes (602 percent) to Sheridan"s 6,121 (398 percent).
In 1991, Sheridan sought a comeback but again lost to Thomas by an identical percent: 6,312 (398) to 9,532 (602 percent). Senator Rayburn, meanwhile, was finally defeated in the 1995 general election by the Republican retired military officer Philosophy Short, who served only three years of a single term. Short in 1999 was succeeded for five years by Sheridan’s House successor, Doctor Jerry Thomas.
Sheridan died at the age of eighty-one at the Louisiana State University Washington-Saint Tammany Regional Medical Center in Bogalusa.
Services were held at the Angie Baptist Church. Interment, with military rites, was at Spencer Cemetery in Enon in Washington Parish.
