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), who represented the state of California in the U.S. 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 Jose. After visiting the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, he was admitted to the bar in 1884 and worked in this city as a lawyer.

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

Six years later the Republicans nominated then Shortridge, both Phelan and the strong competitors of the Prohibition Party and the Socialists defeated in the Senate election. He was in the wake of the presidential election campaign of Warren G. Harding successful, the " return to normality" propagated after the First World War. In 1926 he was confirmed with 63 percent of the vote; on his third attempt he was defeated in the Republican Primary. He was supported. During the election campaigns in each of his sister Clara S. Foltz, who worked on the west coast in the legal profession as the first woman

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

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