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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriDorsey William SHACKLEFORD
(1853-1936)
SHACKLEFORD, Dorsey
William, a Representative from Missouri; born near Sweet
Springs, Saline County, Mo., August 27, 1853; attended the public
schools and William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo.; taught school
1877-1879; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1878 and
commenced practice in Boonville, Mo.; prosecuting attorney of
Cooper County, Mo., 1882-1886 and 1890-1892; judge of the
fourteenth judicial circuit of Missouri from June 1, 1892, until
his resignation on September 9, 1899, having been elected to
Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Richard P. Bland; reelected to
the Fifty-seventh and to the eight succeeding Congresses, and
served from August 29, 1899, to March 3, 1919; chairman, Committee
on Roads (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses); was an
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth
Congress; moved to Jefferson City, Mo., in 1919 and continued the
practice of law; died in Jefferson City, Mo., on July 15, 1936;
interment in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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