
George Laird Shoup (15 June 1836 – 21 December 1904) was the Republican Governor of the Idaho Territory from 30 April 1889 to 3 July 1890 (succeeding Edward A. Stevenson), Governor of Idaho from 3 July to 18 December 1890 (preceding N.B. Willey), and a US Senator from Idaho from 18 December 1890 to 3 March 1901 (preceding Fred Dubois).
Biography[]
George Laird Shoup was born in Kittanning, 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. He served in the 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.