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About George Foster Shepley
George Foster Shepley was an American attorney and Union General. During the Civil War he became the acting mayor of New Orleans in 1862, the military governor of Louisiana from 1862 until 1864 and the military governor of Richmond in 1865. After the war he was nominated as United States circuit judge of the United States Circuit Courts for the First Circuit.
Everything about George Foster Shepley →- Occupation
- military officer, judge, lawyer, politician
- Position held
- Mayor of New Orleans, Governor of Louisiana
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- January 1, 1819
- Died
- July 20, 1878