George de Rue Meiklejohn

George de Rue Meiklejohn

George de Rue Meiklejohn (born August 26, 1857 in Weyauwega , Wisconsin , † April 19, 1929 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American politician . Between 1893 and 1897 he represented the third constituency of the state of Nebraska in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Meiklejohn attended State Normal School in Oshkosh and then worked as a teacher himself in Weyauwega and Liscomb ( Iowa ). After studying law at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and being admitted to the bar in 1880, he began working in his new profession in Fullerton , Nance County , Nebraska. Between 1881 and 1884 he served there as a district attorney.

George Meiklejohn became a member of the Republican Party . From 1884 to 1888 he was a member of the Nebraska Senate , where he was its president since 1886. In 1887 he was chairman of the regional Republican Party Congress in Nebraska and from 1887 to 1888 he was chairman of the party at the state level. He was then between 1889 and 1891 as Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska Deputy to Governor John M. Thayer . In 1892 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the third district of Nebraska, where he replaced Omer Madison Kem on March 4, 1893 . After a re-election in 1894, he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1897. In the elections of 1896, Meiklejohn decided not to run again.

On April 14, 1897, George Meiklejohn was named Deputy Secretary of War by President William McKinley to succeed Joseph Doe . He held this office during the Spanish-American War until his resignation in March 1901. In 1901, he ran unsuccessfully in a by-election to the US Senate for this body. He then worked as a lawyer in Omaha . In 1918 Meiklejohn moved to Los Angeles, where he also worked as a lawyer. He also got into the mining business there. George Meiklejohn died in Los Angeles in 1929 and was buried in Glendale .

Web links

• George de Rue Meiklejohn in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George de Rue Meiklejohn in the database of Find a Grave (English)