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Natalie A. Shepard

American politician from Maine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ115707740 ↗
Source-derived summary

Natalie A. Shepard was a state legislator in Maine. She lived in Stonington, Maine and represented Hancock County, Maine in 1959 and 1961. She was a Republican.

She won a special election in 1959 after the death of her husband Myron Shepard. She defeated Girard V. Condon of Brooksville 474 votes to 240. Her husband had been serving in his second term.

She was born Natalie Alma Libby. She had a son and a daughter Jean Ann Shepard.

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“Natalie A. Shepard” enters the record as american politician from Maine. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Natalie, Shepard and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959, 1961—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Natalie, Shepard and American.
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“Natalie A. Shepard” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Natalie, Shepard and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q115707740. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1959 and 1961.

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This entry incorporates text from “Natalie A. Shepard” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.