Don L. Short

Don L. Short

Don Levingston Short (born June 22, 1903 in Le Mars , Plymouth County , Iowa , † May 10, 1982 in Dickinson , North Dakota ) was an American politician . Between 1959 and 1963 he represented the first and from 1963 to 1965 the second constituency of the state of North Dakota in the US House of Representatives .

Early years

Don Short moved to North Dakota with his parents in 1904. The family settled near Medora . There they ran the Short Ranch. Don Short attended the public schools of his new home and the St. James School in Faribault ( Minnesota ). From 1918 to 1919 he took a crash course in agriculture at Montana State College in Bozeman . Then he was until 1921 at the Pillsbury Military Academy in Owatonna (Minnesota) and from 1922 to 1926 he studied at the University of Minnesota . Then he returned to the Short Ranch, where he worked as a farmer and rancher.

Political career

Don Short became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1937 and 1938 he was the district chief of the Farm Security Administration . In 1957 he was elected to the North Dakota House of Representatives before moving into the US House of Representatives in Washington after the 1958 congressional elections. There he took over from Otto Krueger on January 3, 1959 . After a few re-elections, he was able to exercise this mandate until January 3, 1963. For the following legislative term he was in Congress for the second electoral district between January 3, 1963 and January 3, 1965 . He swapped places in the US House of Representatives with Hjalmar Carl Nygaard , who moved from the second to the first constituency. In 1964, Don Short was not re-elected.

After the end of his political career, Short returned to his ranch and farming. He died in May 1982 and was buried in Medora. Don Short was married to Edith Whittemore, with whom he had four children.

Web links

• Don L. Short in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Don L. Short in the database of Find a Grave (English)