Background
On June 1, 1857, he was the son of United States. Representative William Paine Sheffield, Senior He was born in Newport, Rhode Island and attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts from 1869 to 1873.
United States representative politician
On June 1, 1857, he was the son of United States. Representative William Paine Sheffield, Senior He was born in Newport, Rhode Island and attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts from 1869 to 1873.
He graduated from Brown University in 1877, and studied law at the University of Paris and Harvard Law School.
Born in Newport, Rhode Island He was admitted to the bar in 1880 and commenced practice in Newport. He was a commissioner to extend citizenship to the Narragansett Tribe of Indians in 1880. Sheffield was commissioned a colonel in the Rhode Island Militia on the military staff of Governor George Peabody Wetmore in 1895.
Sheffield was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first Congress and served from March 4, 1909 to March 3, 1911.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 and in 1912. He died in Exeter, Rhode Island on October 19, 1919.
He was buried in the Island Cemetery in Newport.
He was member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives in 1885-1887, 1889, 1890, 1894-1896, and 1899-1901. He served as a member of the commission to revise the State constitution in 1897. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee in 1913 as well as a member of the committee to revise the State constitution in 1918.