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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KansasHerbert Alton MEYER
(1886-1950)
MEYER, Herbert Alton, a
Representative from Kansas; born in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio,
August 30, 1886; attended the grade schools, Washington, D.C., the
Staunton Military Academy, Staunton, Va., 1900-1904, the George
Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1905-1908, and was
graduated from National University Law School, Washington, D.C., in
1910; was admitted to the bar in 1910; during the First World War
served as a captain in the United States Army Air Corps; served as
assistant to the Secretary of the Interior 1915-1917; executive of
an oil marketing company 1919-1937; in 1940 became publisher of the
Independence (Kans.) Daily Reporter; elected as a Republican to the
Eightieth and Eighty-first Congresses and had won renomination for
a third term; served from January 3, 1947, until his death in
Bethesda, Md., October 2, 1950; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery,
Independence, Kans.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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