Copenhaver, Everett T.

Everett T. Copenhaver was a prominent Wyoming politician between the 1930s and 1970s. Copenhaver was born in Nebraska in 1898 and attended the University of Nebraska. He moved to Douglas, Wyoming in 1919, where he went to work for the Railway Express Agency. Copenhaver's political career began in 1938, when he was elected to the Wyoming House of Representatives as a Republican representative from Converse County and went on to serve two terms. Copenhaver held a number of other Wyoming state offices in the course of his long political career, which included serving as Deputy Secretary of State (1943-1944), Assistant State Examiner (1944), State Auditor (1947-1955, 1967-1973), Secretary of State (1955-1959), and State Treasurer (1963-1967). Everett T. Copenhaver passed away in 1986.