Porter Sheldon

Born in Victor, New York, Sheldon completed preparatory studies, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1854 at Batavia, New York.

Sheldon commenced practice in Randolph, New York, then moved to Rockford, Illinois, in 1857 and continued the practice of law. He served as member of the Illinois constitutional convention in 1861, then returned to Jamestown, New York, in 1865 and continued the practice of law.{{cite web|title=Porter Sheldon|url=http://mcclurgmuseum.org/blog/2011/04/29/bicentennial-biographies-no-76-80/|publisher=Chautauqua County Historical Society|access-date=7 March 2014}}

Elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress, Sheldon was a United States Representative for the thirty-first district of New York from March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1871. An unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1870, he resumed the practice of his profession. He was one of the founders of the American Aristotype Co. which later became part of the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester.{{cite web|title=Porter Sheldon|url=http://www.prendergastlibrary.org/?page_id=3990|publisher=James Prendergast Library|access-date=7 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308012152/http://www.prendergastlibrary.org/?page_id=3990|archive-date=8 March 2014|url-status=dead}}

Sheldon died in Jamestown, New York, on August 15, 1908 (76 years, 10 months, and 17 days). He is interred in Lake View Cemetery in Jamestown. His home, the Partridge-Sheldon House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.{{NRISref|2009a}}

Sheldon married Mary Crowley and they had a son, Ralph Crowley Sheldon.{{cite book|title=Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 38|year=1937|publisher=princeton alumni weekly, 1937|page=77|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KhNbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA77 }}

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Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)

Category:People from Victor, New York

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Category:19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives