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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaShepard J. CRUMPACKER, Jr.
(1917-1986)
CRUMPACKER, Shepard J.,
Jr., (cousin of Edgar Dean Crumpacker and Maurice Edgar
Crumpacker), a Representative from Indiana; born in South Bend, St.
Joseph County, Ind., February 13, 1917; attended the public
schools; was graduated from Northwestern University, Evanston,
Ill., in 1938, and from the law school of the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1941; was admitted to the bar the same
year and commenced the practice of law in South Bend, Ind.; entered
the United States Army Air Corps as a private September 26, 1941,
and advanced through the ranks to flight chief in a fighter
squadron; commissioned a lieutenant in 1943 and assigned to
heavy-bomber maintenance; relieved from active duty as a first
lieutenant March 1, 1946; major in the Air Force Reserve; owned and
operated a farm; delegate to Indiana State Republican convention
1958 through 1970; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second,
Eighty-third, and Eighty-fourth Congresses (January 3, 1951-January
3, 1957); did not seek renomination in 1956; practiced law until
1977; appointed judge of the St. Joseph Superior Court and served
from 1977-1985; was a resident of South Bend, Ind., until his death
there October 14, 1986; interment in Riverview Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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