page_title: George L. Shoup
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: George L. Shoup / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: George Laird Shoup given by Idaho to the National Statuary Hall Collection.
context_page_description: George Laird Shoup is an American politician who served as the first Governor of Idaho, in addition to its last territorial governor. He served several months after statehood in 1890 and then became one of the state's first United States Senators.
context_section_description: In 1910, the state of Idaho donated a marble statue of Shoup to the National Statuary Hall Collection at the U.S. Capitol. It was joined by a statue of Senator Borah (1865–1940) in 1947.
  The unincorporated community of Shoup, Idaho on the Salmon River, northwest and downstream of Salmon, was named for him in 1882. During World War II, a Liberty ship named S.S. George L. Shoup (hull #2004) was launched at the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation in Portland in May 1943. A new men's dormitory at the University of Idaho in Moscow was named for him in 1958.
  Shoup's papers were donated to the University of Idaho, having been gathered by his son William and presented by his grandson, G. Elmo Shoup.
caption: George Shoup (NSHC)
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