Short was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress ( March 4 , 1929 – March 3 , 1931 ) and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress . He resumed his former professional pursuits and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1932 . Short was an unsuccessful candidate in 1932 for nomination to the United States Senate but was elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress and the ten succeeding Congresses ( January 3 , 1935 – January 3 , 1957 ) . At the 1940 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , Short received 108 delegate votes for the party 's vice presidential nomination and was the runner-up to the eventual nominee , Charles L. McNary , who received votes from 848 delegates
1940 Republican National Convention
1940 Republican National Convention
Dewey Jackson Short