Beth Campbell Short

Beth Campbell Short (August 6, 1908 – January 11, 1988) was an American journalist. She was a reporter for the Springfield Leader and The Daily Oklahoman, before joining the Associated Press as a correspondent in its Washington, D.C. bureau. While there, she covered the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, and met her future husband, Joseph Short, a fellow reporter at the paper and later press secretary for President Harry S. Truman. She was appointed as Truman's correspondence secretary in 1952, a position she held until 1953 when the presidential administration changed. She was the publicity director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and press secretary for Senator Mike Monroney.