American politician
Herbert Alton Meyer (August 30, 1886 – October 2, 1950) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas .
Born in Chillicothe, Ohio , Meyer attended the grade schools, Washington, D.C. , the Staunton Military Academy , Staunton, Virginia from 1900 to 1904, the George Washington University , Washington, D.C. from 1905 to 1908, and was graduated from National University Law School , Washington, D.C. , in 1910. He was admitted to the bar in 1910.
During the First World War served as a captain in the United States Army Air Service . He served as assistant to the Secretary of the Interior 1915-1917. He was an executive of an oil marketing company from 1919 to 1937. In 1940 became publisher of the Independence Daily Reporter
Death
Meyer was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congresses and had won renomination for a third term. He served from January 3, 1947, until his death from a heart attack at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland , October 2, 1950.[ 1] Independence, Kansas .
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References
^ Rep. Meyer is Heart Victim; Hutchison News Herald; Hutchison, Kansas; Page 15; October 3, 1950
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