Dewey Jackson Short

Dewey Jackson Short (born April 7, 1898 in Galena , Stone County , Missouri , † November 19, 1979 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1929 and 1931 and again between 1933 and 1957 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Dewey Short attended public schools in his home country including Galena High School and Marionville College . During the First World War he served as an infantryman in the American armed forces. After the war and well into the 1920s, he studied at various universities in the United States and Europe . These included Baker University in Baldwin City , Harvard University , Heidelberg University , Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the University of Oxford in England . In between and afterwards he taught ethics, psychology and political philosophy at Southwestern College in Winfield ( Kansas ). He was also pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Springfield in 1927 .

Politically, Short was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional election of 1928 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the 14th constituency of Missouri, where he succeeded James F. Fulbright on March 4, 1929 . Since he was not confirmed in 1930, he was initially only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1931 . This was shaped by the events of the global economic crisis. In the following years Short continued his university duties. In 1932 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where President Herbert Hoover was nominated for re-election, which was unsuccessful. In the same year, Short sought unsuccessfully to nominate his party for the US Senate elections . In 1940 he applied for the position of Republican vice-presidential candidate on the side of Wendell Willkie , but lost with 108: 848 delegate votes clearly against Charles L. McNary .

In the elections of 1934 Short was re-elected to Congress in the seventh district of his state to succeed Clement C. Dickinson . After ten re-elections, he could remain there until January 3, 1957. By 1941, most of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt , but Short's party opposed them. Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also overshadowed by the events of World War II . In 1945 Short was a member of a congress delegation that visited the concentration camps of the Nazi regime in Germany. After that, Short saw the beginning of the Cold War , the Korean War and the beginning of the civil rights movement as a congressman . In 1951 the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. From 1953 to 1955 Short was chairman of the Armed Forces Committee .

In 1956 Short was defeated by the Democrat Charles Harrison Brown . Between 1957 and 1961 he was during the second term of President Dwight D. Eisenhower as the successor to George H. Roderick Deputy Secretary of the Army ( Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil-Military Affairs ). Short later appeared as a guest speaker. He died on November 19, 1979 in the federal capital Washington and was buried in Galena.

Dewey Jackson Short in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)