Shepley, George Foster, 1819-1878
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George Foster Shepley
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Shepley, George Foster (Maine and Louisiana)
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Shepley, George Foster, 1819-1879.
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Lawyer, of Bangor and Portland, Me.; U.S. district attorney for Maine; judge Maine 1st Circuit Court; served as Military Governor of Louisiana during the Civil War.
Lawyer, U.S. district attorney, state legislator, and judge, of Portland, Me.; commissioned as colonel in 12th Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry during Civil War; made military commander of New Orleans, La., and in 1862 appointed military governor of the state of Louisiana; appointed brigadier-general and ordered to duty as commander of the Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina to command the 1st Military District (Virginia).
Graduated Dartmouth 1837; lawyer, Bangor and Portland, Me.; U.S. District Attorney for Me., 1853-1861; brigadier general in Civil War; military gov. of La., 1862-1864; commanded the military district of eastern Va., Army of the James; military gov. of Richmond, Apr.-July 1865; U.S. circuit judge for first circuit of Me., 1869-1878.
Lawyer, U.S. district attorney, state legislator, and judge, of Portland, Me.; commissioned as colonel in 12th Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry during Civil War; made military commander of New Orleans, La., and in 1862 appointed military governor of State of Louisiana; appointed brigadier-general and ordered to duty as commander of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina to command the 1st Military District (Virginia); joined with A.A. Strout to form Portland, Me., law firm of Shepley & Strout in 1866; from 1869 until his death appointed first judge of the First Circuit Court of the U.S.; son of Maine Chief Justice Ether Shepley.
George Foster Shepley, a Dartmouth graduate and son of a U.S. Senator and Supreme Court Justice, accompanied General Butler's expeditionary forces to New Orleans, La. After the capture of the city on May 1, 1862, Shepley was appointed by Butler to serve as the post commander of the city. Shepley held this position until the election of Gov. (Michael) Hahn in the spring of 1864. Additionally, in July of 1862, Shepley was promoted by Butler to brigadier general.
U.S. Army officer, military governor of Louisiana (1862-1864), lawyer, and U.S. district attorney for Maine; of Bangor and Portland, Me.
Born in Maine, George Foster Shepley graduated from Dartmouth College in 1837, practiced law at Bangor and Portland, Me., and served as U.S. District Attorney for Maine (1853-1861). During the Civil War, Shepley was a colonel in the 12th Maine Infantry Regiment, was appointed a brigadier general in July 1862, was military governor of Louisiana (1862-1864), commanded the military district of eastern Virginia, and served as military governor of Richmond, Va. (April-July 1865). He later served as U.S. circuit judge for the first circuit of Maine (1869-1878).
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