Herbert Alton Meyer

Herbert Alton Meyer (1949)

Herbert Alton Meyer (born August 30, 1886 in Chillicothe , Ohio , † October 2, 1950 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1947 and 1950 he represented the third constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Herbert Meyer attended elementary school in Washington, DC and then 1900 to 1904, the Staunton Military Academy in Staunton ( Virginia ). Between 1905 and 1908 he studied at George Washington University in Washington and then until 1910 at the National University of Law. That year he was also admitted to the bar.

Between 1915 and 1917 he worked for the United States Department of the Interior . During the First World War Meyer was a captain in the Air Corps of the US Army . Between 1919 and 1937 he was on the board of a company that marketed oil. In 1940 he published the Independence Daily Reporter.

Meyer was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1946 he was elected to the US House of Representatives as their candidate in the third district of Kansas, where he succeeded Thomas Daniel Winter on January 3, 1947 . After he was re-elected in 1948, he could remain in Congress until his death on October 2, 1950 . His parliamentary mandate then went to Myron V. George .

Web links

• Herbert Alton Meyer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Herbert Alton Meyer in the database of Find a Grave (English)