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Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 1973.1.30
Robert B. Meyner
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Ar…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 1973.1.30

Robert B. Meyner

American, 1908 - 1990
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Robert B. Meyner was an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 44th Governor of New Jersey, from 1954 to 1962; before being elected Governor, Meyner represented Warren County in the New Jersey Senate from 1948 to 1951; he was born on July 3, 1908 in Easton, Pennsylvania; his family moved to New Jersey in 1916; he attended Lafayette College, where he majored in government and law; he was awarded an LL. B. degree from Columbia Law School in 1933; he was employed as a law clerk by J. Emil Walscheid and Milton Rosenkranz from February 1933 to April 1936; he then became a well-known trial lawyer in Phillipsburg, N.J.; during World War II, Meyner served as an officer in the Navy, and he was discharged with the rank of Lieutenant Commander; after a failed run for federal office, he was elected to the state senate in 1947; he served as the Governor of New Jersey from January 19, 1954 to January 16,1962; Meyne’’s wife, Helen Stevenson Meyner, whom he married on January 19, 1957 in Oberlin, Ohio, served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975-1979.
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