John Calhoun Sheppard

52nd Governor of the State of South Carolina 1886

Date Born: July 5, 1850

Date Died: October 7, 1931

Place Born: Unknown

Place Buried: Willowbrook Cemetery, Edgfield, SC

Residence: Unknown

Occupation: Lawyer


Bethel Academy
Furman University - honorary degree awarded 1925

South Carolina House of Representatives, 1876-1882
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, 1882-1886
South Carolina Senate, 1898-1904, 1919-1920

On July 10, 1886, Lieutenant Governor Sheppard succeeded to office following the resignation of Governor Hugh Smith Thompson

Governor Sheppard served only five months


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