On Nov. 2, 1920, when Nevada County women went to the polls for the first time to vote for the next United States senator from California, the major party candidates were Democrat James Phelan and ...

He was accused of appointing Lawyer Samuel Shortridge Jr. to at least one fat receivership, dismissing a receiver who refused to appoint as his attorney a lawyer of the judge’s choosing, of ...

Editor’s note: James S. Edwards, a prominent citrus grower in the Redlands area, was a Prohibition party candidate for the U.S. Senate seat that Republican Samuel Shortridge won in 1920 ...

A stocky, slit-eyed San Francisco lawyer by the name of Harold Louderback could thank Senator Samuel Shortridge of California for the Federal judgeship President Coolidge handed him in 1928 ...

In Los Angeles last week, long, lean William Gibbs McAdoo cocked an acquisitive eye across the continent upon the big red leather chair in the U. S. Senate which holds the long, lean frame of ...