Garner E. Shriver

Garner E. Shriver

Garner Edward Shriver (born July 6, 1912 in Towanda , Kansas , † March 1, 1998 in Wichita , Kansas) was an American politician . Between 1961 and 1977 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Garner Shriver attended public schools in Towanda and Wichita, where he had moved in 1925. He studied at the University of Wichita until 1934 and then at the University of Southern California until 1936 . In the meantime, Shriver worked as a teacher. After studying law at Washburn Law School and being admitted to the bar in 1940, he began working in his new profession. During World War II , he served in the US Navy in the Pacific from 1943 to 1946 .

After the war, Shriver began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1947 and 1951 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Kansas ; from 1953 to 1960 he was a member of the State Senate . In 1960, Shriver was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth district of Kansas . There he took over from Edward Herbert Rees on January 3, 1961 . After he was confirmed in the following seven congressional elections, he was able to complete eight consecutive terms in Congress by January 3, 1977 . He was temporarily a member of the budget committee and advocated a higher defense budget. He also supported demands that financially equate veterans of the Vietnam War with those of the Second World War and the Korean War . In the 1976 election, Shriver was defeated by Democrat Dan Glickman .

Between 1977 and 1980, Shriver was a legal advisor to the Senate Veterans Committee . From 1981 to 1982 he was an advisor to the entire Senate. Then he worked again as a lawyer. Shriver died on March 1, 1998 in Wichita. In 2003 the post office there was named after him.

Web links

• Garner E. Shriver in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Garner E. Shriver in the database of Find a Grave (English)