SCOTT, Ralph James, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Surry County, near Pinnacle, N.C., October 15, 1905; educated in the public schools; Wake Forest College, LL.B., 1930; was admitted to the bar in 1930 and commenced the practice of law in Danbury, N.C.; member of the State house of representatives, 1936-1937; delegate to State Democratic conventions, 1936-1968; chairman, Democratic Executive Committee of Stokes County, 1936-1970; solicitor of the twenty-first judicial district of North Carolina 1938-1956; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1967); was not a candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; resumed the practice of law; was a resident of Danbury, N.C., until his death there August 5, 1983; interment in Pannacle Baptist Church cemetery.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the United States 1774-present.)

SHEPPERD, Augustine Henry, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Rockford, Surry County, N.C., February 24, 1792; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Surry County, N.C.; member of the state house of representatives 1822-1826; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth through Twenty-second Congresses, reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses, and elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1839); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Twenty-first Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Twenty-second Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); chairman, Committee on Public Expenditures (Twenty-seventh Congress); elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1851); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1850; resumed the practice of his profession; died at “Good Spring,” Salem (now Winston-Salem), Forsyth County, N.C., July 11, 1864; interment in Salem Cemetery.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the United States 1774-present.)

SHEPPERD, AUGUSTUS H.; lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in Surry County, N. C. He served in the house of commons of North Carolina from 1822 to 1826; and was a representative in congress from 1829 to 1839, from 1841 to 1843, and again from 1847 to 1851.
[Herringshaw's encyclopedia of American biography of the nineteenth century; Edited by Thomas William Herringshaw; Publ. 1901; Donated and Transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack]