George Laird Shoup

George Laird Shoup (15. června 1836 – 21. prosince 1904) was the Republican Governor of the Idaho Territory from 30 April 1889 to 3 July 1890 (succeeding Edward A. Stevenson), Governor of Idaho od 3. července do 18. prosince 1890 (před N.B. Willey), a US Senator od 18. prosince 1890 do 3. března 1901 (před Fred Dubois).

Životopis

George Laird Shoup se narodil v Kittanningu, Pennsylvania in 1836, and he moved to Galesburg, Illinois in 1852 and to the Colorado Territory in 1859 to engage in mining and merchandising near Pikes Peak and Denver. Sloužil ve třídě 3rd Colorado Cavalry Regiment during the American Civil War and the Sand Creek massacre during the Colorado War, and he moved to Virginia City, Montana after the war and settled in Salmon, Idaho, where he became a general store owner. He served in the territorial legislature before serving as Governor of Idaho from 1889 to 1890 and in the US Senate from 1890 to 1901, and he advocated a just treatment of Native Americans. He died in Boise in 1904.

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