{{Short description|American politician (1880–1958)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Joseph C. Shaffer | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | office = [[United States Attorney]] for the {{nowrap|[[United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia|Western District of Virginia]]}} | term_start = 1932 | term_end = 1933 | president = [[Herbert Hoover]] | predecessor = [[John Paul Jr. (judge)|John Paul Jr.]] | successor = Joseph H. Chitwood | term_start1 = 1924 | term_end1 = 1929 | president1 = [[Calvin Coolidge]] | predecessor1= Lewis P. Summers | successor1 = John Paul Jr. | state2 = [[Virginia]] | district2 = [[Virginia's 9th congressional district|9th]] | term_start2 = March 4, 1929 | term_end2 = March 3, 1931 | predecessor2= [[George C. Peery]] | successor2 = [[John W. Flannagan Jr.]] | office3 = [[Commonwealth's Attorney]] for {{nowrap|[[Wythe County, Virginia|Wythe County]]}} | term_start3 = January 1, 1908 | term_end3 = December 31, 1911 | predecessor3= H. M. Heuser | successor3 = Stuart B. Campbell | birth_name = Joseph Crockett Shaffer | birth_date = {{birth date|1880|01|19}} | birth_place = {{nowrap|[[Wythe County, Virginia]], U.S.}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1958|10|19|1880|01|19}} | death_place = [[Abingdon, Virginia]], U.S. | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | education = [[University of Virginia]] ([[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]]) }}
<!-- 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. -->'''Joseph Crockett Shaffer''' (January 19, 1880{{spnd}}October 19, 1958) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Virginia]].
==Biography== Born near [[Wytheville, Virginia]], Shaffer attended the Wytheville public schools. He was graduated from [[Plummer College]] in Wytheville in 1902 and from the law department of the [[University of Virginia]] in 1904. He was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar]] in 1904 and commenced practice in Wytheville. He served as [[Commonwealth's Attorney]] of [[Wythe County, Virginia|Wythe County]] 1908-1912. 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.
Shaffer was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the [[71st United States Congress|Seventy-first]] Congress (March 4, 1929–March 3, 1931). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the [[72nd United States Congress|Seventy-second]] Congress. He was reappointed [[United States Attorney]] for the Western District of Virginia, serving from 1931 until his resignation in 1932. He resumed the private practice of law. Shaffer was a stockholder and officer in Wythe County National Bank. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1940. He died in [[Abingdon, Virginia]], and was interred in St. John's Church Cemetery, Wytheville.
==Sources== {{CongBio|S000278}}
==External links== {{Portal|Biography}} * {{Find a Grave|7786101}}
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