Paul Ranous Greever, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paul Ranous Greever

politician and United States Army officer

Date of Birth: 28-Sep-1891

Place of Birth: Lansing, Kansas, United States

Date of Death: 16-Feb-1943

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Paul Ranous Greever (September 28, 1891 – February 16, 1943) was a United States Representative from Wyoming. Born in Lansing, Kansas, he attended public and high schools, and was graduated from the law department of the University of Kansas in Lawrence in 1917.
He served as a First Lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Fourteenth Trench Mortar Battery, 89th Division, from April 1917 to March 1919.
He was admitted to the bar in 1917 and commenced practice in Pine Bluffs and in Cody, Wyoming in 1921.
He served as mayor of Cody from 1930 to 1932, and was a trustee of the University of Wyoming from 1933 to 1934; he also engaged in banking. Greever was elected as a member of the Democratic party 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, and in 1943 accidentally shot himself while cleaning a shotgun.
He died in Cody; interment was in Riverside Cemetery.