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George von Lengerke Meyer (* 24. Juni 1858 in Boston, Massachusetts; † 9. März 1918 ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker ( Republikanische Partei ), der unter zwei Präsidenten dem US-Kabinett angehörte. Nachdem Meyer 1879 in Harvard graduiert hatte, schlug er eine Laufbahn als Geschäftsmann ein.
George von Lengerke Meyer (June 24, 1858 – March 9, 1918) was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, as United States ambassador to Italy and Russia, as United States Postmaster General from 1907 to 1909 during the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt and ...
Abstract. This collection consists of correspondence, printed matter, letterbooks, scrapbooks, and other papers primarily documenting George von Lengerke Meyer's career as a businessman, ambassador to Italy and Russia, Postmaster General, and Secretary of the Navy.
- Meyer, George von Lengerke, 1858-1918
- George von Lengerke Meyer papers
- 1808-1918
Meyer served as postmaster general in the presidential cabinet of Theodore Roosevelt from March 1907 to March 1909. His achievements included the establishment of postal savings banks and automobile mail collection. President William Howard Taft named him secretary of the Navy, a position Meyer would hold for the entirety of the Taft ...
4. März 2014 · Subjects: Meyer, George von Lengerke, 1858-1918; Ambassadors; United States. Dept. of the Navy ; McKinley, William, 1843-1901 ; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 ; Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 ; Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 ; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
George Meyer, as Lowell did of Josiah Quincy: "This was in all ways a beautiful and fortunate life-fortunate in the goods of this world-fortunate, above all, in the force of character which makes fortune secondary and subservient." Meyer was "well born," as the phrase goes. His father was a suc-cessful merchant, of German descent. His mother ...
George von Lengerke Meyer (24 June, 1858 – 9 March, 1918) served as the fortieth Secretary of the Navy from 1907 through 1909.
