George de Rue Meiklejohn

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

Career

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

George Meiklejohn was a member of the Republican Party. From 1884 to 1888 he was a member of the Senate from Nebraska, where he was its president since 1886. In 1887 he was chairman of the regional congress of the Republicans in Nebraska and from 1887 to 1888 he was chairman of the party at the state level. After that, he was 1889-1891 as Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska deputy of Governor John Milton Thayer. In 1892 he was selected in the third district of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he Omer Madison Kem replaced on March 4, 1893. After a re-election in 1894 he was able to implement his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1897. In the elections of 1896 Meiklejohn opted not to run again.

On April 14, 1897 George Meiklejohn of President William McKinley was appointed deputy minister of war. This post he held during the Spanish- American War until his resignation in March 1901. In 1901 he applied unsuccessfully for a by-election to the U.S. Senate for that body. He then worked as a lawyer in Omaha. 1918 Meiklejohn moved to Los Angeles, where he has also worked as a lawyer. He also grew there into the mining business. George Meiklejohn died in 1929 in Los Angeles, and was buried in Glendale.