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3 unusual facts about Shepherd Leffler


Shepherd Leffler

Upon the admission of Iowa as a state on December 28, 1846, he was elected as a Democrat to serve as one of two at-large Congressmen for the last two months of the Twenty-ninth Congress.

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He had also been elected to represent Iowa's 2nd congressional district in the Thirtieth Congress from 1847 to early 1849.

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In 1848, he defeated Whig (and future Republican) candidate Timothy Davis, then served in the Thirty-first Congress.



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