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==Background==

==Background==

Short was born in Galena in Stone County in southwestern Missouri to Jackson Grant Short (1864-1947) and the former Permelia Cordelia Long (1868-1924). After his graduation from Galena High School and Marionville College, he served in the infantry during [[World War I]] and graduated in 1919 from Baker University in Baldwin City in Douglas County in northeastern [[Kansas]] and in 1922 from [[Boston University]] in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. Short also attended [[Harvard University]], Heidelberg University, the University of Berlin, both in [[Germany]], and [[Oxford University]], dates unavailable. In 1923, 1924, and 1926-1928, he was a [[professor]] of [[ethics]], [[psychology]], and political philosophy at Southwestern College in Winfield in Cowley County in southeastern Kansas. In 1927, he was a pastor of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in Springfield in southwestern Missouri.<ref name=biodir>Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress - Retro Member details, accessed November 15, 2021.</ref> Springfield is 225 miles west of Winfield; so it is unclear how he handled the distance between the two cities.

Short was born in Galena in Stone County in southwestern Missouri to Jackson Grant Short (1864-1947) and the former Permelia Cordelia Long (1868-1924). After his graduation from Galena High School and Marionville College, he served in the infantry during [[World War I]] and graduated in 1919 from Baker University in Baldwin City in Douglas County in northeastern [[Kansas]] and in 1922 from [[Boston University]] in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. Short also attended [[Harvard University]], Heidelberg University, the University of Berlin, both in [[Germany]], and [[Oxford University]] in [[England]], dates unavailable. In 1923, 1924, and 1926-1928, he was a [[professor]] of [[ethics]], [[psychology]], and political philosophy at Southwestern College in Winfield in Cowley County in southeastern Kansas. In 1927, he was a pastor of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in Springfield in southwestern Missouri.<ref name=biodir>Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress - Retro Member details, accessed November 15, 2021.</ref> Springfield is 225 miles west of Winfield; so it is unclear how he handled the distance between the two cities.

On April 20, 1937, at the age of thirty-nine, Short wed the former Helen Gladys Hughes (1901-1990, a native of [[Washington, D.C.]]  The couple had no children.<ref name=mrsshort>Helen Gladys Hughes Short (1901-1990) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed November 15, 2021.</ref>

On April 20, 1937, at the age of thirty-nine, Short wed the former Helen Gladys Hughes (1901-1990, a native of [[Washington, D.C.]]  The couple had no children.<ref name=mrsshort>Helen Gladys Hughes Short (1901-1990) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed November 15, 2021.</ref>

On January 23, 1935, Short spoke to the House chamber. He claimed that the lawmakers had "degenerated into a supine, subservient, soporific, superfluous, supercilious, pusillanimous body of nitwits, the greatest ever gathered beneath the dome of our National Capitol, who cowardly abdicate their powers and, in violation of their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution against all of the Nation's enemies, both foreign and domestic, turn over these constitutional prerogatives, not only granted but imposed upon them, to a group of tax-eating, conceited autocratic bureaucrats, a bunch of theoretical, intellectual, professorial nincompoops out of [[Columbia University]], at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue who were never elected by the American people to any office and who are responsible to no constituency. These 'brain trusters' and 'new dealers' are the ones who wrote this resolution, instead of the Members of this House whose duty it is, and whose sole duty it is, to draft legislation."<ref>''Congressional Record,'' January 23, 1935.</ref>

On January 23, 1935, Short spoke to the House chamber. He claimed that the lawmakers had "degenerated into a supine, subservient, soporific, superfluous, supercilious, pusillanimous body of nitwits, the greatest ever gathered beneath the dome of our National Capitol, who cowardly abdicate their powers and, in violation of their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution against all of the Nation's enemies, both foreign and domestic, turn over these constitutional prerogatives, not only granted but imposed upon them, to a group of tax-eating, conceited autocratic bureaucrats, a bunch of theoretical, intellectual, professorial nincompoops out of [[Columbia University]], at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue who were never elected by the American people to any office and who are responsible to no constituency. These 'brain trusters' and 'new dealers' are the ones who wrote this resolution, instead of the Members of this House whose duty it is, and whose sole duty it is, to draft legislation."<ref>''Congressional Record,'' January 23, 1935.</ref>

The Dewey Short Visitors Center in the resort city of [[Branson]] is named in his honor.

The Dewey Short Visitors Center in the resort city of [[Branson]] on Table Rock Lake is named in his honor.

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