George F. Shepley

Infobox Officeholder
name = George F. Shepley


caption =
order = Military Governor of Richmond, Virginia
term_start = April 13, 1865
term_end = June 1865
predecessor =
successor =
order2 = Military Governor of Louisiana
term_start2 = 1862
term_end2 = 1864
predecessor2 = Thomas Overton Moore
successor2 = Michael Hahn
order3 = 20th Mayor (Acting Military Mayor) of New Orleans, Louisiana
term_start3 = May 20, 1862
term_end3 = July 11, 1862
predecessor3 = John T. Monroe
successor3 = Godfrey Weitzel
birth_date = birth date|1819|1|1|mf=y
birth_place = Saco, Maine
death_date = death date and age|1878|7|20|1819|1|1|mf=y
death_place = Portland, Maine
constituency =
party = Democratic
spouse = Lucy Ann Hayes
profession =
religion =


footnotes =

George Foster Shepley (January 1, 1819ndash July 20, 1878) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was appointed military Governor of Louisiana by General Benjamin Butler in June 1862.

Shepley served as the acting military mayor of New Orleans from May 20, 1862ndash July 11, 1862. This appointment lasted less than two months before Shepley was appointed military governor of the occupied parishes of Louisiana from 1862–1864. Shepley later served as military governor of Richmond, Virginia.

He died in Portland, Maine, on July 20, 1878, and is interred at Evergreen Cemetery in that city. His tombstone has his birth date as January 1, 1819.

References

* [http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/tabid/376/Default.aspx State of Louisiana - Biography]
* [http://la-cemeteries.com/Governors/Shepley,%20George%20Foster/Shepley,%20George%20Foster.shtml Cemetery Memorial] by La-Cemeteries

External links

*findagrave|21039