John Meyer (Illinois politician)
John Meyer (February 27, 1852 – July 3, 1895) was an American lawyer and politician.
Meyer was born in the Netherlands. He emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1867 and settled in Chicago, Illinois. He went to the public schools in Chicago. He studied law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. He received his law degree in 1879 and was admitted to the Illinois bar. Meyer practiced law in Freeport, Illinois with his brother-in-law. Meyer served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1884 until his death in 1895. He served as speaker of the house in 1895 and was a Republican. Meyer died at his brother-in-law's home in Freeport, Illinois.[1][2][3]
Notes
- 'Official Directory of the General Assembly of Illinois, 1895,' Biographical Sketch of John Meyer, pg. 27
- 'Speaker Meyer Dead,' Chicago Legal News, July 6, 1895, pg. 389
- 'Worn Out-Hon. John Meyer, Speaker of the Illinois House, Is Dead,' The Decatur Herald (Decatur Illinois), July 6, 1895, pg. 5
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gollark: If you could somehow make medicine/law available as undergraduate things that... might help?
gollark: The UK does those, I think, and seems to be doing fine lawyer and doctor-wise.
gollark: A convincing explanation I read of the everyone-has-to-go-to-college thing is that college degrees work as a signal to employers that you have some basic competence at listening independently, doing things for delayed gain later, sort of thing, more than providing any massively work-relevant skills, and it apparently got easier/more popular to get a degree over time, so the *lack* of one works as a signal that you *lack* those basic skills.
gollark: No idea.
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