Shepherd, James

Flourished: 1830-1838 Sangamon County, Illinois

A Democrat, Shepherd was Sangamon County coroner from 1830 to 1834. He unsuccessfully ran for the Illinois General Assembly in 1834 and Sangamon County sheriff in 1838.

U.S. Census Office, Fifth Census of the United States (1830), Sangamon County, IL, 191; Tabulation of Votes in Sangamon County for State Representatives 1832-1836; History of Sangamon County, Illinois (Chicago: Inter-State, 1881), 272-73, 283.