 He also attended Eastern Illinois University where he was a member of the Sigma Pi fraternity.Myers served in the United States Army from 1945 to 1946, was a cashier and trust officer with the Fountain Trust Company from 1952 to 1966 and worked as a farmer in Fountain County.He was first elected to congress in 1966 and was re-elected fourteen more times, serving from 1967 until his retirement in 1997.