Oliver Henry Nelson Shoup (December 13, 1869 – September 30, 1940) was the 22nd Governor of Colorado from 1919 to 1923.

While governor, the Colorado National Guard was restructured and the State Highway Department was founded.

Shoup declined to run for a third term and left the governor's office on January 9, 1923, returning to work in the private business sector.

In his final years, he moved to Santa Monica, California where he retired from public life.

[6] He died of a heart attack on September 30, 1940, in his home in Santa Monica, California and is buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs.