Dewey Short
| Dewey Jackson Short | |
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| Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil-Military Affairs | |
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In office March 15, 1957 – November 1958 |
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| President | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | George H. Roderick |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee | |
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In office January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1955 |
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| Speaker | Joseph William Martin, Jr. |
| Preceded by | Carl Vinson |
| Succeeded by | Carl Vinson |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri's 7th district |
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In office January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1957 |
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| Preceded by | District inactive |
| Succeeded by | Charles H. Brown |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri's 14th district |
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In office March 4, 1929 – March 3, 1931 |
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| Preceded by | James F. Fulbright |
| Succeeded by | James F. Fulbright |
| Personal details | |
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April 7, 1898 Galena, Missouri |
| Died | November 19, 1979 (aged 81) Washington, DC |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Republican |
Dewey Jackson Short (April 7, 1898 – November 19, 1979) was a Republican U.S. Representative from Missouri's 7th congressional district for 12 terms and a staunch opponent of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.
Short was born in Galena, Missouri on April 7, 1898 to Jackson Grant Short and Permelia C. Long. Short attended Galena High School and Marionville College. He served in the infantry during World War I and graduated from Baker University in 1919 and from Boston University in 1922. Short also attended Harvard University, Heidelberg University, the University of Berlin, and Oxford University. He was a professor of ethics, psychology, and political philosophy at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas in 1923, 1924, and 1926-1928. Short was a pastor of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, Springfield, Missouri, in 1927. He married Helen Gladys Hughes of Washington, DC, on April 20, 1937. The couple had no children.
Short was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929 – March 3, 1931) and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress. He resumed his former professional pursuits and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1932. Short was an unsuccessful candidate in 1932 for nomination to the United States Senate but was elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress and the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1957). At the 1940 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Short received 108 delegate votes for the party's vice presidential nomination and was the runner-up to the eventual nominee, Charles L. McNary, who received votes from 848 delegates.
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