biography
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Shoup, George Laird
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| male
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| lived:
| (1836–1904)
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| biography:
| US governor and senator, born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, USA. He sold mining goods in Colorado, serving as an army scout in the SW during the Civil War (1861–4). Moving to Idaho, he led that territory to statehood, becoming Republican governor (1889–90). In the US Senate (1891–1901), he chaired the Committee on the Territories, supporting Indian rights. |
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