George S. Myers

This article is about the politician George S. Myers. For the zoologist, see George Sprague Myers .

George S. Myers

George S. Myers (born April 21, 1881 in Rising Sun , Ohio , † May 9, 1940 in Columbus , Ohio) was an American teacher, lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ). He was a member of the Ohio General Assembly and was Secretary of State of Ohio from 1933 to 1936 .

Career

George S. Myers, son of Hanna Neucome and Albert Myers, was born in Sandusky County . He attended public schools and became a teacher at the age of 16. He taught for six years. In 1903 he enrolled at the College of Wooster . He then began to study law at the Western Reserve Franklin Thomas Backus School of Law in 1907 and graduated there in 1910. He was admitted to the Ohio bar that same year. From 1910 to 1932 he practiced as a lawyer in Cleveland, Ohio. He also worked as an inspector for dance halls for three years.

Myers was elected and re-elected to the Ohio House of Representatives for Cuyahoga County in 1916 and 1918 . After his tenure ended in 1921, he resumed his practice in Cleveland. Myers was unsuccessful in running for Ohio's 20th Congressional District in 1922  . He also suffered a defeat in his candidacy for lieutenant governor of Ohio in 1928. Then he ran unsuccessfully in 1930 in the Democratic primary for a seat in the US Senate . In November 1932 he was elected Secretary of State. His term of office began on January 9, 1933. He was re-elected in 1934.

In 1936 he was asked to run for governor of Ohio, instead he ran for a full six-year term in the Ohio Supreme Court . Myers won the election. He was the first candidate to win more than a million votes in an election for the Supreme Court. He took his seat on January 1, 1937 and held it for the rest of his life. Myers worked a full day in court on May 9, 1940, then went home, had a heart attack and died. Despite being a Lutheran , his burial took place in Trinity Episcopal Church (Columbus, Ohio) . He was buried in Trinity Cemetery in Rising Sun.

Myers married in 1915 Louise Birch from Lexington ( Kentucky ). The couple had two children. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias .

Individual evidence

1. ^ WE Halley and John P. Maynard: Manual of Legislative Practice in the General Assembly of Ohio , Westbote Company, 1920, p. 170

Web links

• George S. Myers on The Supreme Court of Ohio website