Career
Greuel served as speaker of the Alaska Territorial House of Representatives during the last territorial legislature, and would also serve in the Alaska House of Representatives following statehood. Richard Greuel was born in New Holstein, Wisconsin on April 18, 1928. Greuel came to Fairbanks, Alaska through his service in the United States. Army and stayed there after leaving the Army.
He spent a number of years working for Fairbanks radio station KFAR as an announcer and program director
He would later go on to work in real estate. He was later a delegate to the 1960 Democratic National Convention that nominated John F. Kennedy for President of the United States.
Greuel would later serve in the state House of Representatives in 1959. He also served on one of Governor William A. Egan"s advisory redistricting boards.
