Biography

03/10/1850 - 01/22/1931

Charles McKendrie Shortt, (R48) Venango and Warren Counties 1895-1898

Early Life:

Charles McKendrie Shortt, born March 10, 1850, Youngsville, Warren County, Pennsylvania; son of William Hamilton and Emmeline Davis Shortt; Youngsville public schools; Edinboro State Normal School; Iron City Commercial School of Pittsburgh; cashier, president, Sugar Gove Bank; elected, alternate delegate, Republican National Convention, 1880; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1883-1884, not a candidate for reelection, 1885; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1894-1898; died, January 22, 1931, Richmond Hill, Queens, New York City, Queens County, New York; interment, Cherry Hill Cemetery, Sugar Grove, Warren County, Pennsylvania.

Early Career:

Resumed duties at the bank, which his father started, Sugar Gove Bank.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, alternate delegate, Republican National Convention, 1880.

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1883-1884, not a candidate for reelection, 1885.

Elected, Pennsylvania State Senate, 48th district, Venango and Warren Counties, 1895-1898; committee assignments, Appropriations, Banks and Building and Loan Associations, Corporations, Education, Insurance (Chairman), Legislative Apportionment Public Health and Sanitation.

Pennsylvania House of Representatives Biography:

Official Website - PA House Archives Official Website (state.pa.us) 

Legacy:

Father, William Hamilton Shortt, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, Warren County 1872-1873. 

Official Website - PA House Archives Official Website (state.pa.us)

From the authors of the Sugar Grove Township page, an interesting anecdote:

Mr. F.A. Schoonover was a director of the bank for nearly half a century. He remembered Charles McKendrie Shortt as a man of character and integrity. “Charley Shortt did a lot of good people never knew about,” Mr. Schoonover said. “For example, before Christmas he’d come into the stores and say: ‘Do you know of any poor families who don’t have much to eat?’ Then on Christmas morning or the day before, these people would be delivered a bushel basket of groceries. They never knew who sent them.”

Cited:

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members S". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1898). Cochran, T.B., (Editor) Miller, H.P. (Assistant Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 1164, 1169-1171, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 1139.

Warren Times Mirror (Warren, Pennsylvania) · Friday, January 23, 1931 · Obituaries · Page 7.

Charles McKendree Shortt (1850-1931) - Find a Grave Memorial