Garner E. 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

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, 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

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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

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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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