Errett P. Scrivner

Errett P. Scrivner (1955)

Errett Power Scrivner (born March 20, 1898 in Newton , Kansas , † May 5, 1978 in Cocoa Beach , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1943 and 1959 he represented the second constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Errett Scrivner attended the common schools and the Manual Training High School in Kansas City ( Missouri ). During the First World War he served as a soldier in the US Army . He was awarded several medals for his military achievements. After the war, he continued his education with a law degree at the University of Kansas at Lawrence . After his admission to the bar in 1925, he began working in his new profession in Kansas City (Kansas).

Politically, Scrivner was a member of the Republican Party . After the death of Congressman U. S. Guyer , he was elected his successor in the US House of Representatives in the by-election in 1943. After he also won the following seven regular elections, he could remain in Congress between September 14, 1943 and January 3, 1959 . There he experienced the end of the Second World War and the Korean War . In the elections of 1958 he was defeated by the Democrat Newell A. George .

Between January 1959 and March 1960, Scrivner worked in the budget division of the US Department of Defense . From March 7, 1960 to January 20, 1961, the end of the reign of President Dwight D. Eisenhower , he served as the head of the public relations department in that agency. He later moved to Cocoa Beach, Florida, where he was employed in the city administration in 1970. Errett Scrivner died in this city in 1978.

Web links

• Errett P. Scrivner in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Errett P. Scrivner in the database of Find a Grave (English)