Dewey Jackson Short (April 7, 1898 – November 19, 1979) was an American politician from Missouri.

A member of the Republican Party, he was a staunch opponent of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.

[5] While attending Baker University, in 1918, Short entered into a United States Army officer's training camp at Fort Sheridan.

[9] After leaving Harvard Law School, Short became a lecturer and later professor of ethics, psychology, and political philosophy at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas.

At the 1940 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Short received 108 delegate votes for the party's vice presidential nomination.

Short did not sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto, which was an expression of resistance to desegregation of public schools and other facilities.

In 1954 the US Supreme Court had ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, in Brown v. Board of Education.

In his memoir, In the Arena (1990), former President Richard Nixon cited Short as perhaps the finest orator he had ever seen.

"I deeply and sincerely regret that this body has degenerated into a supine, subservient, soporific, superfluous, supercilious, pusillanimous body of nitwits, the greatest ever gathered beneath the dome of our National Capitol, who cowardly abdicate their powers and, in violation of their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution against all of the Nation's enemies, both foreign and domestic, turn over these constitutional prerogatives, not only granted but imposed upon them,to a group of tax-eating, conceited autocratic bureaucrats a bunch of theoretical, intellectual, professorial nincompoops out of Columbia University, at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue who were never elected by the American people to any office and who are responsible to no constituency.