In July 1917, during World War I, he enlisted in Battery B of the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Field Artillery; he served overseas in 1918 and 1919.

[3] He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress, largely due to his request for a vote for appropriations to continue construction on the controversial and wildly unpopular Tuttle Creek Dam along the Big Blue River.

President Eisenhower had specifically chosen to leave out funding for the continuation of the dam, but Scrivner's insistence led to the displacement of thousands of families and the flooding of some of America's best crop land.

[citation needed] He served as special assistant to the comptroller, Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., from January 1959 to March 1960.

[2] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress