death_date children birth_date residence birthname term_end restingplace alma_mater title profession term_start spouse image relations predecessor birth_place party parents successor religion article_title
9 april 1941 three daughters 28 may 1875 texarkana , texas john morris sheppard april 3 , 1903 9 , 1941 february 3 , 1913 march hillcrest cemetery texarkana , texas ut austin law school yale law school united house of representatives from texas 's 1st congressional district member states of the u.s. house of representatives from texas 's 4th senator congressional district from texas member of the u.s. attorney february 15 , 1902 3 , 1913 march 4 , 1903 november lucille sanderson sheppard_morris . jpg connie -lrb- great-grandson -rrb- richard s. arnold -lrb- grandson -rrb- morris mack s. arnold -lrb- grandson -rrb- iii -lrb- grandson -rrb- connie mack iv rienzi m. johnston thomas h. ball john levi sheppard morris county , texas democratic john levi sheppard margaret alice eddins andrew j. houston horace worth vaughan choice b. randell methodist morris sheppard

morris sheppard

john morris sheppard -lrb- may 28 , 1875april 9 , 1941 -rrb- was a democratic united states congressman and united states senator from texas .
he authored the eighteenth amendment -lrb- prohibition -rrb- and introduced it in the senate , so that he is referred to as `` the father of national prohibition . ''
