Paul Ranous Greever was a United States Representative from Wyoming

Wyoming

Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High...

. Born in Lansing, Kansas

Lansing, Kansas

Lansing is a city situated along the Missouri River in the eastern part of Leavenworth County, located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 11,265...

, he attended public and high schools, and was graduated from the law department of the University of Kansas

University of Kansas

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 in Lawrence

Lawrence, Kansas

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 in 1917. He served as a First Lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Fourteenth Trench

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 Mortar

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 Battery

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, 89th Division, from April 1917 to March 1919. He was admitted to the bar

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 in 1917 and commenced practice in Pine Bluffs

Pine Bluffs, Wyoming

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 1,153 people, 482 households, and 332 families residing in the town. The population density was 357.4 people per square mile . There were 517 housing units at an average density of 160.3 per square mile...

 and in Cody, Wyoming

Cody, Wyoming

Cody is a city in Park County, Wyoming, United States. It is named after William Frederick Cody, primarily known as Buffalo Bill, from William Cody's part in the creation of the original town. The population was 9,520 at the 2010 census...

 in 1921. He served as mayor of Cody from 1930 to 1932, and was a trustee

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 of the University of Wyoming

University of Wyoming

The University of Wyoming is a land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, situated on Wyoming's high Laramie Plains, at an elevation of 7,200 feet , between the Laramie and Snowy Range mountains. It is known as UW to people close to the university...

 from 1933 to 1934; he also engaged in banking.

Greever was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses, serving from January 3, 1935 to January 3, 1939; he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress. He resumed the practice of law

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, and in 1943 accidentally shot himself while cleaning a shotgun

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. He died in Cody; interment was in Riverside Cemetery.