James Short

James or Jim Short may refer to:

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Jim Short (Australian politician)

James Robert "Jim" Short (born 7 December 1936) is an Australian politician and diplomat.

Born in Shepparton, Victoria, he attended the University of Melbourne before becoming a public servant with the Treasury Department in 1963. He was Executive Secretary of the Australian Industry Development Corporation from 1973 to 1974.

In 1975, he was elected to the House of Representatives as the Liberal member for Ballaarat (the name was changed to Ballarat in 1977). He held the seat until his defeat in 1980.

In 1984, he was elected to the Senate.

Jim Short was appointed Assistant Treasurer in the First Howard Ministry in March 1996. On 14 October 1996 he resigned his portfolio after inadvertently misleading the Senate about a conflict of interest. He resigned from the Senate the following year to take up a $150,000-a-year (tax-free) position at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, where he remained until 2000. He was appointed Special Envoy to Cyprus in 2001.

James Short (footballer)

John James Short (April 1896 – after 1927) was an English professional footballer who scored 20 goals in 48 appearances in the Football League playing for Birmingham, Watford and Norwich City. He played as an inside forward or centre forward.

Short was born in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. During the First World War, he played for Lincoln City and Notts County; he scored 20 goals in 42 wartime games for the latter and was highly rated. After the war he joined Birmingham of the Football League Second Division, for whom he scored on his debut on 1 November 1919, in a 2–1 win at West Ham United, and followed up with another seven goals in the next six games. Short moved on to Watford at the end of the 1919–20 season, and later played for Norwich City in the Football League and Ilkeston United, Newark Town and Grantham Town outside it.

He is described as a fine goalscorer whose career was badly affected by wounds received during the war.

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