Francis Edwin Shober (March 12, 1831 – May 29, 1896) was an American politician who served as

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from North Carolina, secretary of the United States Senate, county judge, and a member of the North Carolina State House and North Carolina House of Commons. He was the father of

Francis Emanuel Shober Francis Emanuel Shober (October 24, 1860 – October 7, 1919) was an American politician, educator, newspaperman, and religious leader who served one term as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1903 to 1905. He was the son of Francis Edwin S ...

. Born in Salem (now Winston-Salem), North Carolina, Shober attended the common schools and the

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, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1851. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced practice in

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, in 1854. He served as member of the

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House of Commons (18621864). He served in the

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state senate in 1865. Shober was elected as a

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to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses (March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1873). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1872. He served as delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1875. County judge of Rowan County in 1877 and 1878. He was appointed Chief Clerk of the United States Senate in the Forty-fifth Congress. Upon the death of Secretary John C. Burch in the Forty-seventh Congress was appointed Acting Secretary of the Senate and served from October 24, 1881, to December 18, 1883. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1880 and 1884. He was again a member of the State senate in 1887. He resumed the practice of his profession. He died in

, May 29, 1896. He was interred in Oakdale Cemetery. On January 6, 1889, James Francis Shober, the first black physician with a medical degree to set up practice in North Carolina, died. Evidence indicates that he had a son, James Francis Shober from an 18-year-old slave. His son was born in the Moravian community of Salem in 1853 and was the first documented African-American physician in NC.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shober, Francis Edwin 1831 births 1896 deaths Democratic Party members of the North Carolina House of Representatives Democratic Party North Carolina state senators Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina 19th-century American politicians Secretaries of the United States Senate