Arthur Shoup was a charter member of the Juneau Men's Igloo.

Shoup was born in Challis, Idaho territory, November 26, 1880 and came to Alaska in July 1897 with his father, James M. Shoup.

Arthur was educated in the common schools of Idaho and graduated
from Washington State University in Law.

His residency in the territory has been broken only by occasional visits to the states. His father for three years was United States Marshall for the entire Territory of Alaska, and for nine years served as head of the Federal Policing Department of the First Division, living in Juneau.

Representative Shoup was Office Deputy Marshal at Ketchikan from 1902 until 1907 and at Sitka in the same capacity from 1907 to 1910. He is a Republican.

Shoup was elected to the First Alaska Territorial Legislature, on a non-partisan ticket and was an author of the Women’s Suffrage Act, the first bill passed by the Assembly.

Last October, after he had been chairman of the non-partisan convention here he was re-elected to the legislature and in the pre-legislative caucus was supported by his colleagues from the First Division for the speakership, but failed of election by a short few votes. He was honored by being chosen temporary speaker.

Representative Shoup has served without compensation as superintendent of the Territorial Pioneers Home in Sitka since it opened on July 4.75

For his unselfish service to the Territory and to humanity, as superintendent of the Pioneers Home at Sitka, without compensation, Representative Shoup was paid high tribute in a complimentary resolution introduced by Representative Driscoll. It was Representative Shoup who first lobbied for the establishment of an institution where the aged and indigent prospectors and miners of Alaska could spend the autumn of their life in comfort.

Before the First Legislature convened he conferred with the Delegate to Congress, and the latter succeeded in getting the government’s permission to convert the abandoned United States Marine Barracks at the former capital into buildings suitable for the Home.

Shoup moved to San Jose, California in 1927 and practiced law. He died in San Jose, California on April 9, 1942.

Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers 1850-1950, Volume 2 p291-292, by Ed Ferrell (May 1, 2009
Alaska Digital Archives, James Joseph Connors Photograph Collection PCA 457