Mark I. Shepard (born 1960) is a former Vermont State Senator ( R- Bennington) and unsuccessful candidate for the 2006

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nomination for Vermont's at-large United States House of Representatives seat.

Biography

Shepard was born on September 12, 1960, in

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, and grew up in the neighboring town of Hartland. After graduating from

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in 1978, he went on to earn a

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license (1982), a

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in electrical engineering,

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(1986), and a

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in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1994). Shepard and his wife Rebecca lived in

Bennington, Vermont Bennington is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States. It is one of two shire towns (county seats) of the county, the other being Manchester. As of the 2020 US Census, the population was 15,333. Bennington is the most populous t ...

, from 1994, until they moved to Virginia in 2011, and have seven sons: Issac, Caleb, Zechariah, Kirby, Otto, Samual, and Shepard S Shepard. He is the owner and operator of an industrial control and test systems engineering business, which he founded in 1993.

Public life

In 2002, Shepard was elected to the Vermont Senate. He was re-elected in 2004. Shepard ran for the 2006 Republican nomination for Vermont's at-large United States House of Representatives seat. On September 12, 2006 he was defeated by

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in the Republican primary.

External links

Mark Shepard For Congress website

Vermont Senate Biographies
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