Don L. Short

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Don Levingston Short (June 22, 1903 - May 10, 1982) was a U.S. Representative from North Dakota.

Born in Le Mars, Iowa, Short moved with parents to a ranch in Billings County, near Medora, N.Dak., in February 1904. He attended Medora public schools and St. James School, Faribault, Minnesota. Agricultural short course at Montana State College at Bozeman in 1918 and 1919. He graduated from Pillsbury Military Academy, Owatonna, Minnesota, in 1921. Student at the University of Minnesota 1922-1926. Farmer and rancher. County supervisor, Farm Security Administration, in 1937 and 1938. He served as member of the North Dakota State assembly, 1957.

Short was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth, Eighty-seventh, and Eighty-eighth Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1965). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress. He resumed cattle ranching until retirement. He was a resident of Beach, N.Dak., until his death in Dickinson, N.Dak., on May 10, 1982. He was interred in Medora Cemetery, Medora, N.Dak.

[edit] Source

• Don L. Short at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

[edit] External links

• Don L. Short at Find A Grave

Preceded by Otto Krueger	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Dakota's 1st congressional district 1959–1963	Succeeded by Hjalmar Carl Nygaard
Preceded by Hjalmar Carl Nygaard	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Dakota's 2nd congressional district 1963–1965	Succeeded by Rolland W. Redlin