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Data source is Anthony Ray. E-mail acr91@adelphia.net
EARL LEON SHOUP was born at Leon, Butler county, Kansas, May 1, 1886. He is the son of Levi H. Shoup, of German descent,
who came to Kansas in 1876 and settled near Whiting, Jackson county. He was formerly of Bryan, Williams county, Ohio. Alice
Campbell, the mother, of Irish descent, came to Kansas from Kentucky with her parents in 1870 and settled near Whiting.
Earl Leon Shoup graduated from Campbell College, at Holton, and Washburn College, Topeka, in 1911. He has always lived in
Kansas, except eleven months in New Mexico. He taught a district school in Jackson county, and is now engaged in the county
high school at Kingman. Kan.
Son of Levi Harrison and Alice (Campbell) S.; A.B., Washburn Coll., Topeka, Kan., 1911; student Yale, 1913-14; A.M., U. of Chicago, 1919; Ph.D., Harvard, 1923; married Irene Helena Mehl, Mar. 27, 1919 (dec. July 16, 1943); 1 dau., Rebecca Alice. Asst. prof. history and polit. science, Earlham Coll., Richmond, Ind., 1915-18; instr., polit. science, Stanford Univ., sumer, 1918; prof. hist. and polit. sci., Whittier (Calif.) Coll., 1918-19; asst. prof. polit. sci., Kan. State Teachers Coll., Emporia, 1919-20; teaching asst. dept. of govt., Harvard, 1920-22; asst. prof. polit. sci., Western Res. Univ., 1922-24, asso. prof., 1924-27, Marcus Alonzo Hanna prof. since 1927, chmn. dept., 1924-50; asst. dean Adelbert Coll., 1925-26. Exec. sec. Cuyahoga County (O.) Charter Commn., 1934-35; draftsman of Proposed County Charter, Cuyahoga Co. Mem. Am. Polit. Sci. Assn., Nat. Municipal League, Am. Soc. for Pub. Adminstrn., Acacia. Republican. Conglist. Author: (with Louis Clinton Hatch) A History of the Vice-Presidency of the United States, 1934; The Government of the American People, 1946; The National Government of the American People, 1948. Contbr. articles to Am. Polit. Sci. Review, Nat. Municipal Review, Western Res. Law Review. Home: 3292 Daleford Rd., Shaker Heights, O