Background
Shriver, Garner Edward was born on July 6, 1912 in Towanda, Kansas, United States. Son of Edward Arthur and Olive (Glass) Shriver.
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Shriver, Garner Edward was born on July 6, 1912 in Towanda, Kansas, United States. Son of Edward Arthur and Olive (Glass) Shriver.
Bachelor of Arts Wichita, 1934. Juris Doctor, Washburn University, 1940. D. Public Service, Friends University, Wichita, 1970.
He moved to Wichita, Kansas, in 1925. He was in the University of Wichita, Bachelor of Arts, 1934 (postgraduate study at University of Southern California in 1936), and Washburn Law School, Bachelor of Laws, 1940 and Juris Doctor, 1970. He worked for a drug company in Wichita from 1934 to 1936.
He was admitted to the bar in Wichita in February 1940.
He served for three years in the United States Navy as an enlisted man and officer from 1943 to 1946. State representative from 1947 to 1951.
State senator 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).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress.
Minority staff director and legal counsel for the Senate Veterans" Affairs Committee, Washington, District of Columbia, March 1977–1980, and general counsel from 1981 to 1982. He resumed the practice of law. He was a resident of Wichita, Kansas, until his death there on March 1, 1998.
Trustee Murdock Art Collection of Wichita Art Museum. Board directors Kansas Dialysis Association, DeMolay Legion of Honor. Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, World World War World War II.
Member American Bar Association, Kansas Bar Association, Wichita Bar Association, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, National Sorjourners, Masons (33d degree), Shriners.
Son of Edward Arthur and Olive (Glass) S. M. Martha Jane Currier, June 4, 1941. Children: Kay Kwon, David Garner, Linda Ann Breeding.