| George F. Shepley | |
| George Foster Shepley (Maine and Louisiana) | |
Military Governor of Richmond, Virginia
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| In office April 13, 1865 – June 1865 | |
Military (18th) Governor of Louisiana
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| In office 1862–1864 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas Overton Moore |
| Succeeded by | Michael Hahn |
May 20,or (Acting Military Mayor) of New Orleans, Louisiana
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| In office May 20, 1862 – July 11, 1862 | |
| Preceded by | John T. Monroe |
| Succeeded by | Godfrey Weitzel |
| Born | January 1, 1819 Saco, Maine |
| Died | July 20, 1878 (aged 59) Portland, Maine |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Lucy Ann Hayes |
George Foster Shepley (January 1, 1819 – July 20, 1878) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was appointed military and 18th Governor of Louisiana by General Benjamin Butler in June 1862. He later served as a United States federal judge.
Education and early career[]
Born in Saco, Maine, Shepley studied law at Harvard University, and then received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1837. He read law to enter the Bar in 1839, and was in private practice in Bangor, Maine from 1839 to 1844, and in Portland, Maine from 1844 to 1861. He was a U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine from 1848 to 1849 and from 1853 to 1861.
Military career[]
Shepley rose to the rank of Brigadier General serving in the Union Army from 1861 to 1865. He first served as the acting military mayor of New Orleans from May 20, 1862 – July 11, 1862. This appointment lasted less than two months before Shepley was appointed military governor of the occupied parishes of Louisiana from 1862–1864. Shepley later served as the first military governor of Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital.
Post-war legal and judicial career[]
After the war, Shepley returned to his private practice in Portland in 1865. He was a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1866 to 1867, and continued in private practice until 1869. On December 8, 1869, Shepley was nominated by President Ulysses S. Grant to a new seat on the United States circuit court for the First Circuit created by 16 Stat. 44. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 22, 1869, and received his commission the same day. He continued in that office until his death.
He died in Portland, Maine, on July 20, 1878, and is interred at Evergreen Cemetery in that city. His tombstone has his birth date as January 1, 1819.[1]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Appleton's Cyclopedia "George Foster Shepley"
- State of Louisiana - Biography
- Cemetery Memorial by La-Cemeteries
- Template:FJC Bio
External links[]
- George Foster Shepley (Maine and Louisiana) at Find a Grave Retrieved on 2008-10-13
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John T. Monroe
|width="40%" style="text-align: center;" rowspan="1"|Mayor of New Orleans
May 20, 1862 – July 11, 1862
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Godfrey Weitzel
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Thomas Overton Moore
|width="40%" style="text-align: center;" rowspan="1"|Governor of Louisiana
1862 – 1864
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Michael Hahn
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April 13, 1865 – June 1865
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