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SHOUP, Richard Gardner (Dick), (great-grandson of George Laird Shoup),
a Representative from Montana; born in Salmon, Lemhi County, Idaho,
November 29, 1923; attended the Salmon public schools; B.S., University of
Montana, Missoula, Mont., 1950; served in the United States Army, European
Theater, Field Artillery, 1943-1946; served in the Korean conflict, 1951-1952;
elected alderman, Missoula City Council, 1963-1967, serving as president,
1965-1967; mayor, Missoula, Mont., 1967-1970; owner-operator, laundry and dry
cleaning business, 1954-1967; employed in agriculture service department,
Montana Flour Mills, 1953-1954; member, Governors (Montana) Crime Commission,
1969-1970, and Montana League of Cities and Towns, 1967-1970; elected as a
Republican to the Ninety-second and Ninety-third Congresses (January 3,
1971-January 3, 1975); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1974 to the
Ninety-fourth Congress; director, Union Pacific Railroad, Washington, D.C.,
1975-1984; died November 25, 1995.
BibliographyRalph Nader Congress Project.
Citizens Look at Congress: Richard G. Shoup, Republican Representative
from Montana. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers,
1972.
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