| LC control no. | n 82219351 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Meyner, Robert B. |
| Variant(s) | Meyner, Robert Baumle, 1908-1990 |
| See also | New Jersey. Governor (1954-1962 : Meyner) |
| Associated place | Phillipsburg (N.J.) |
| Birth date | 1908-07-03 |
| Death date | 1990-05-27 |
| Place of birth | Easton (Northampton County, Pa.) |
| Place of death | Captiva (Fla.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Navy New Jersey. Legislature. Senate New Jersey. Office of the Governor |
| Profession or occupation | Governors Lawyers |
| Found in | Probert, T. I traveled with Meyner, 1954. NUCMC data from Rutgers Univ. Lib. for Crawford, W. Political cartoons, 1954-1962 (Robert B. Meyner) WWA, 1970-1971 (Meyner, Robert Baumle; b. 1908; Gov. N.J. 1954-1962) NUCMC data from Rutgers Univ. Libr. for Crawford, W., Editorial cartoons, 1954-1962 (Robert B. Meyner, gov. of N.J.) Wikipedia, October 17, 2013 (Robert B. Meyner; Robert Baumle 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; he died on May 27, 1990 in Captiva, Florida) |
| Associated language | eng |
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