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 Service. He served as assistant to the Secretary of the Interior 1915-1917. He was an executive of an oil marketing company from 1919 to 1937. In 1940, Meyer became publisher of the Independence Daily Reporter.
Death Meyer defeated the incumbent in the Republican primary and was elected to the Eightieth and, after winning the nomination again over Winter, the Eighty-first Congresses. Meyer won renomination over a new challenger for a third term. He served from January 3, 1947, until his death from a heart attack at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, October 2, 1950.Rep. Meyer is Heart Victim; Hutchison News Herald; Hutchison, Kansas; Page 15; October 3, 1950 He was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery, Independence, Kansas.
See also List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1950–1999)
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Memorial services held in the House of Representatives together with remarks presented in eulogy of Herbert Alton Meyer, late a representative from Kansas