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 Corps. He 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 (Kansas) Daily Reporter.
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 in Bethesda, Maryland, October 2, 1950. He was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery, Independence, Kansas.
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“Take of this grain, which in my garden grows,”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“Whether in the field of health, education or welfare, I have put my emphasis on preventive rather than curative programs and tried to influence our elaborate, costly and ill- co-ordinated welfare organizations in that direction. Unfortunately the momentum of social work is still directed toward compensating the victims of our society for its injustices rather than eliminating those injustices.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)