and Janet. Some of their descendants also became politicians. Sheppard and his wife were the grandparents of Connie Mack III, Republican U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Florida, and great-grandparents of Connie Mack IV, Republican U.S. Representative from Florida. Other Sheppard grandsons were Democrat Richard Sheppard Arnold (1936–2004) and Republican Morris Sheppard "Buzz" Arnold (born 1941), judges at different times on the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, and later concurrently on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the only brothers to serve concurrently on a US federal court of appeals. The federal courthouse in Little Rock is named in Judge Richard Arnold's honor. Judge Morris Arnold, a Republican, remains on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit under senior status. Death Sheppard died in office of a brain hemorrhage on April 9, 1941. He is interred at Hillcrest Cemetery in Texarkana, Texas. Andrew Jackson Houston was appointed senator in his place until a special election could be held. The year following Sheppard's death, his widow Lucile Sanderson Sheppard married Tom Connally, also a United States senator from Texas. Senator Connally also pre-deceased Lucile. When she died in 1980, she was buried with her first husband Morris Sheppard in Hillcrest Cemetery. Legacy Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas was named in his honor. Fraternal memberships Freemasons Knights of Pythias Odd Fellows Woodmen of the World Improved Order of Red Men Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Kappa Alpha Order Phi Beta Kappa Society See also List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49) List of United States senators from Texas References External links |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- 1875 births 1941 deaths Activists from Texas American temperance activists Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Texas Democratic Party United States senators from Texas People from Morris County, Texas University of Texas School of Law alumni Yale University alumni American segregationists American white supremacists Progressivism in the United States