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Senate Years of Service: 1921-1933 Party: Republican
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SHORTRIDGE, Samuel Morgan, a Senator from California; born in Mount Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa, August 3,
1861; moved to California with his parents, who settled in San Jose in 1875; attended the public
schools and the Hastings College of Law at San Francisco, Calif.; admitted to the bar in 1884 and
commenced the practice of law in San Francisco, Calif.; presidential elector on the Republican ticket
in 1888, 1900 and 1908; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1920; reelected in
1926 and served from March 4, 1921, to March 3, 1933; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1932; chairman, Committee on Privileges and Elections (Seventieth through Seventy-second
Congresses), Committee on Naval Affairs (Seventy-second Congress); resumed the practice of law;
special attorney, Justice Department, Washington, D.C., 1939-1943; died in Atherton, Calif., January
15, 1952; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, San Jose, Calif.
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