Samuel M. Shortridge

Samuel M. Shortridge

Samuel Morgan Shortridge (born August 3, 1861 in Mount Pleasant , Henry County , Iowa , †  January 15, 1952 in Atherton , California ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of California in the US Senate .

Samuel Shortridge, a descendant of the American pioneer Daniel Boone , moved with his parents to California in 1875, where the family settled in San José . After attending the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco , he was admitted to the bar in 1884 and then worked in that city as a lawyer.

In the presidential elections of 1888 , 1900 and 1908 Shortridge sat for the Republicans in the Electoral College . In 1914 he applied for a political mandate himself for the first time, but was defeated in the primary of his party before the election to the US Senate to Congressman Joseph R. Knowland , who then lost to the Democrat James D. Phelan .

Six years later, the Republicans nominated Shortridge, who defeated Phelan as well as the strong rivals of the Prohibition Party and the Socialists in the Senate election . He was successful in the wake of the presidential election campaign of Warren G. Harding , who advocated a "return to normal" after the First World War . In 1926 he was confirmed with 63 percent of the vote; on his third attempt he lost in the Republican primary. He was supported in the election campaigns by his sister Clara S. Foltz , who was the first woman to work as a lawyer on the west coast .

After his political career, Samuel Shortridge worked again as a lawyer. From 1939 to 1943 he worked for the Justice Department in Washington before retiring in California.

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• Samuel M. Shortridge in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Samuel M. Shortridge in the database of Find a Grave (English)