Mark I. Shepard (born 1960) is a former
Vermont State Senator
The Vermont General Assembly is the legislative body of the state of Vermont, in the United States. The Legislature is formally known as the "General Assembly," but the style of "Legislature" is commonly used, including by the body itself. The Ge ...
(
R-
Bennington
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 to ...
) and unsuccessful candidate for the 2006
Republican nomination for
Vermont's at-large United States House of Representatives seat.
Biography
Shepard was born on September 12, 1960, in
Windsor, Vermont, and grew up in the neighboring town of
Hartland. After graduating from
Hartford High School in 1978, he went on to earn a
journeyman electrician license
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A license is granted by a party (licensor) to another party (licensee) as an element of an agreeme ...
(1982), a
Bachelor of Science in
electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
,
University of Florida (1986), and a
Master of Engineering in electrical engineering from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute () (RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut. A third campus in Groton, Connecticut closed in 2018. RPI was established in 1824 by Stephen Van ...
(1994).
Shepard and his wife Rebecca lived in
Bennington, Vermont, 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
Martha Rainville in the Republican primary.
External links
Mark Shepard For Congress websiteVermont Senate Biographies
Vermont state senators
1960 births
Living people
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
People from Bennington, Vermont
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