Oliver Henry Shoup (13 December 1869-30 September 1940) was the Republican Governor of Colorado from 14 January 1919 to 9 January 1923, succeeding Julius Caldeen Gunter and preceding William Ellery Sweet.
Biography[]
Oliver Henry Shoup was born in Champaign County, Illinois in 1869, and his family moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1882. Shoup worked in the oil industry and as a bank director before serving as the state's Republican governor from 1919 to 1923. He restructured the state national guard, founded the State Highway Department, decreased his state's bonded debt, and strongly supported Prohibition. In his final years, he moved to Santa Monica, California, and he died in 1940.