Background
He was born on April 23, 1847 at Brenham, Texas, United States, the son of Chauncey Berkeley and Mary Hester (Andrews) Shepard.
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He was born on April 23, 1847 at Brenham, Texas, United States, the son of Chauncey Berkeley and Mary Hester (Andrews) Shepard.
He was trained in Texas private schools. He entered Washington College, now Washington and Lee University, and was graduated in law in 1868.
He served in the Confederate army during the last months of the Civil War.
In 1868 he began the practice of law in Brenham, and became a state senator from Washington County. During the sessions of 1874 and 1875, he was an active leader in the "Democratic readjustment" under Gov. Richard Coke, and he supported the movement for a constitutional convention in 1875. He led the fight against the compromise measure proposing an award of $3, 000, 000 in state bonds to the International Railroad, when the radical legislature in 1870 had voted the road a bonus of $8, 000, 000 to build across the state, and succeeded in substituting the Coke-Shepard plan of land gifts in 1875.
In 1874 and the two following election years he failed by a narrow margin to obtain the Democratic nomination for Congress, and in 1880 he was nominated unanimously in convention but was defeated by the Greenback candidate.
He had removed to Galveston and was attorney for the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad. He made Dallas his home in 1886 and continued the practice of law. As a member of the board of regents of the University of Texas from 1883 to 1891, he was a spokesman especially upon public occasions.
When in the Democratic split at the state convention of 1892 the Hogg group followed the Populist doctrine of "free coinage of silver" and repudiated the demands of the National Democratic Convention, Shepard, who had been a member of the committee of resolutions of the Chicago convention to write the party platform in June, adhered to the Clark faction that declared for the Cleveland policy of a gold standard. Hogg was elected after an exciting campaign, and the Texas Democrats were soon reunited.
Cleveland appointed him as an associate justice of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia in 1893. He was made chief justice by Theodore Roosevelt in 1905. The Texas bar association unanimously urged his appointment to the United States Supreme Court after the death of Samuel Blatchford, and he was even more seriously considered in 1895 after the death of Howell Jackson.
He retired from the court of appeals in the spring of 1917 and died the following December in Washington.
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He was a leading speaker in the fight against state prohibition in 1887, arguing against the "paternalism in government" involved, opposed establishment of the railroad commission, and in 1892 advocated the change from an appointive to an elective commission.
He was married three times, on January 18, 1882, to Caroline Nelson Goree, of Alabama, who died in 1889, on March 25, 1890, to Etta K. Jarvis, of Louisville, who died in 1909, and subsequently to Mrs. Julia (Bones) Towsley, of Washington, who with four children survived him.