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<p>Moving <a href="/wiki143/index.php?title=Category:County_and_city_Commonwealth%27s_Attorneys_in_Virginia&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:County and city Commonwealth&#039;s Attorneys in Virginia (page does not exist)">Category:County and city Commonwealth&#039;s Attorneys in Virginia</a> to <a href="/wiki143/index.php?title=Category:County_and_city_commonwealth%27s_attorneys_in_Virginia" title="Category:County and city commonwealth&#039;s attorneys in Virginia">Category:County and city commonwealth&#039;s attorneys in Virginia</a> per <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categories_for_discussion/Speedy" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy">Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy</a></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|American politician (1880–1958)}}<br /> <br /> {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2020}}<br /> {{Infobox officeholder<br /> | honorific-prefix = <br /> | name = Joseph Crockett Shaffer<br /> | honorific-suffix = <br /> | image = <br /> | alt = <br /> | state = Virginia<br /> | district = 9th<br /> | term_start = March 4, 1929<br /> | term_end = March 3, 1931<br /> | predecessor = [[George C. Peery]]<br /> | successor = [[John W. Flannagan, Jr.]]<br /> | prior_term =<br /> }}<br /> <br /> &lt;!-- This article was automatically created by [[User:polbot]] from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000278. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. --&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Joseph Crockett Shaffer&#039;&#039;&#039; (January 19, 1880{{spnd}}October 19, 1958) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Virginia]].<br /> <br /> ==Biography==<br /> Born near [[Wytheville, Virginia]], Shaffer attended the Wytheville public schools.<br /> He was graduated from [[Plummer College]] in Wytheville in 1902 and from the law department of the [[University of Virginia]] in 1904.<br /> He was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar]] in 1904 and commenced practice in Wytheville.<br /> He served as [[Commonwealth&#039;s Attorney]] of [[Wythe County, Virginia|Wythe County]] 1908-1912.<br /> He served as assistant United States district attorney in the years 1920-1924 and served as [[United States attorney]] for the western district of Virginia from 1924-1929.<br /> <br /> Shaffer was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the [[71st United States Congress|Seventy-first]] Congress (March 4, 1929&amp;ndash;March 3, 1931).<br /> He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the [[72nd United States Congress|Seventy-second]] Congress.<br /> He was reappointed [[United States Attorney]] for the Western District of Virginia, serving from 1931 until his resignation in 1932.<br /> He resumed the private practice of law.<br /> Shaffer was a stockholder and officer in Wythe County National Bank.<br /> He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1940.<br /> He died in [[Abingdon, Virginia]], and was interred in St. John&#039;s Church Cemetery, Wytheville.<br /> <br /> ==Sources==<br /> {{CongBio|S000278}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> {{Portal|Biography}}<br /> * {{Find a Grave|7786101}}<br /> <br /> {{Bioguide}}<br /> <br /> {{s-start}}<br /> {{s-par|us-hs}}<br /> {{US House succession box<br /> | state=Virginia<br /> | district=9<br /> | before=[[George C. Peery]]<br /> | after=[[John W. Flannagan, Jr.]]<br /> | years=1929&amp;ndash;1931<br /> }}<br /> {{s-end}}<br /> {{VirginiaRepresentatives09}}<br /> {{authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Shaffer, Joseph Crockett}}<br /> [[Category:1880 births]]<br /> [[Category:1958 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:County and city commonwealth&#039;s attorneys in Virginia]]<br /> [[Category:University of Virginia School of Law alumni]]<br /> [[Category:People from Wytheville, Virginia]]<br /> [[Category:United States attorneys for the Western District of Virginia]]<br /> [[Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century Virginia politicians]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives]]</div>

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