Garner Edward Shriver (July 6, 1912 – March 1, 1998) was a

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from

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Biography

Born in

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, Shriver attended the public schools of Towanda and Wichita. He moved to

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, in 1925. He was in the

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, B.A., 1934 (postgraduate study at

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in 1936), and Washburn Law School, LL.B., 1940 and J.D., 1970. He worked for a drug company in Wichita from 1934 to 1936. He was a teacher at South Haven High School in 1936 and 1937. He was

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in Wichita in February 1940. He served for three years in the

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as an enlisted man and officer from 1943 to 1946. He served in the

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from 1947 to 1951 and then in the

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from 1953 to 1960. Shriver was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1977). In 1974, Shriver won with about 49 percent of the vote in a three-way race.Glickman, Dan
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'', April 17, 2005. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress. He was defeated by

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by three percentage points. After losing reelection, he served as minority staff director and legal counsel for the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee from March 1977 until 1980, and then the committee's general counsel from 1981 to 1982. He later resumed the practice of law and was a resident of

, until his death there on March 1, 1998.

References

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