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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriDewey Jackson SHORT
(1898-1979)
SHORT, Dewey Jackson, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Galena, Stone County, Mo.,
April 7, 1898; attended the public school, Galena High School, and
Marionville (Mo.) College; during the First World War served in the
Infantry; was graduated from Baker University, Baldwin City, Kans.,
in 1919 and from Boston (Mass.) University in 1922; attended
Harvard University, Heidelberg University, the University of
Berlin, Germany, and Oxford University, Oxford, England; professor
of ethics, psychology, and political philosophy at Southwestern
College, Winfield, Kans., in 1923, 1924, and 1926-1928; pastor of
the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, Springfield, Mo., in 1927;
elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4,
1929-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930
to the Seventy-second Congress; resumed his former professional
pursuits; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1932;
unsuccessful candidate in 1932 for nomination to the United States
Senate; elected to the Seventy-fourth and to the ten succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1957); chairman, Committee
on Armed Services (Eighty-third Congress); unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress; congressional
delegate to inspect concentration camps in Germany in 1945;
Assistant Secretary of the Army from March 15, 1957, to January 20,
1961; was president emeritus, National Rivers and Harbors Congress,
and a lecturer; resided in Washington, D.C., where he died November
19, 1979; interment in Galena Cemetery, Galena, Mo.
Bibliography
Wiley, Robert S. Dewey Short, Orator of the Ozarks.
Cassville, Miss.: Litho Printers and Bindery, 1985.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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