Robert B. Meyner

Robert dangling Meyner ( born July 3, 1908 in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, † 27 May 1990 in Phillipsburg, New Jersey ) was an American politician and from 1954 to 1962 Governor of New Jersey.

Early years and political rise

Robert Meyner attended until 1926, the Phillipsburg High School and then to 1930 the Lafayette College in Easton. With a law degree from Columbia Law School, he graduated in 1933 from his student days. He then became a successful trial lawyer. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1928, he supported Al Smith in his unsuccessful presidential bid. In 1941, candidate Meyner unsuccessfully for a seat in the Senate from New Jersey. During the Second World War, he was a naval officer.

After the war he was a candidate in 1946, again unsuccessfully for the U.S. Congress. A year later he was elected to the State Senate from New Jersey. In 1951 he was chairman of the regional congress of his party for New Jersey, and in 1952 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. On November 3, 1953, he was elected as a candidate of his party for governor of his state.

Governor of New Jersey

Robert Meyner took up his new post on 19 January 1954. After a re-election in 1957, he could remain in office until January 16, 1962. He campaigned for better education policies and reformed the government apparatus. At that time also the motorway network of the state was expanded. In public elections, the absentee ballot system was introduced. Governor Meyner also uncovered a fraud scandal, in which the former governor Harold Giles Hoffman was involved, and dismissed him from the post of chairman of the unemployment insurance commission. In 1960, Meyner was a Democratic presidential candidate in the interview. On the Nomierungsparteitag he received 43 votes and finished in fourth place cut off. The nomination went to John F. Kennedy.

Further CV

After the end of his governorship Meyner was working as a lawyer again. In 1969 he ran unsuccessfully for a return to the governorship. After he retired from politics. Robert Meyner, died in May 1990. He was with Helen Stevenson Meyner ( 1929-1997 ) who married for two terms was a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1979.