John Ambrose Meyer

John Ambrose Meyer ( born May 15, 1899 in Baltimore, Maryland, † October 2, 1969 ) was an American politician. Between 1941 and 1943 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Meyer attended the common schools and the Loyola High School. During the First World War he was a soldier in the military training program at Georgetown University in the capital city Washington DC was attached. Thereafter he attended until 1921, the Loyola College in Baltimore. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Maryland and his 1922 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Baltimore in this profession. From 1929 to 1935 he was traffic judges his hometown. In the years 1939 and 1940 served as one of the legal representatives of Baltimore. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1940, Meyer was selected in the fourth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Ambrose Jerome Kennedy on January 3, 1941. Since he was not nominated in 1942 for re-election, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1943. This was marked by the events of the Second World War. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Meyer initially worked for the Office of Price Administration and then practiced as a lawyer again. He died on October 2, 1969 in Baltimore, where he was also buried.

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