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 1963-1965 the second electoral district of the state of North Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

Already moved in 1904 Don Short with his parents to North Dakota. The family settled near Medora. There they operated 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 for the subject of Agriculture at Montana State College in Bozeman. After that, he was until 1921 at the Pillsbury Military Academy in Owatonna (Minnesota) and 1922 to 1926 he studied at the University of Minnesota. He then returned to the Short Ranch, where he worked as a farmer and rancher.

Political career

Don Short was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1937 and 1938 he was Manager of the Farm Security Administration. In 1957 he was elected to the House of Representatives from North Dakota, before he entered the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington after the midterm elections of 1958. There he came into effect on January 3, 1959 the successor of Otto Krueger. After some re- election he was able to exercise this mandate until January 3, 1963. For the next Parliament, he was for the second election district, between January 1963 and January 3, 1965 3 in Congress. He exchanged with Hjalmar Carl Nygaard places in the U.S. House of Representatives, who joined in the first constituency of the second. In 1964, Don Short was not re-elected.

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