Adolph Meyer

{{short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{for-multi|the German banker|Adolph Meyer (banker)|the American Lutheran pastor|Adolph F. Meyer|the photographer|Adolph de Meyer}}  {{Infobox officeholder | image = File:AdolphMeyerLA.jpg | image_size = | state1 = [[Louisiana]] | district1 = [[Louisiana's 1st congressional district|1st]] | term_start1 = March 4, 1891 | term_end1 = March 8, 1908 | predecessor1 = [[Theodore Stark Wilkinson (politician)|Theodore S. Wilkinson]] | successor1 = [[Albert Estopinal]] | birth_name = Adolph Meyer | birth_date = {{Birth date|1842|10|19}} | birth_place = [[Natchez, Mississippi]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1908|03|08|1842|10|19}} | death_place = [[New Orleans, Louisiana]] | spouse = | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | resting_place = [[New Orleans, Louisiana]] | alma_mater = [[University of Virginia]] | profession = Banker, Planter

| allegiance = {{flag|United States}}<br>{{flagicon|CSA|variant=1864}} [[Confederate States of America]] | branch = [[Confederate States Army]]<br>[[Louisiana National Guard]] | service_years = 1862–1865 (CSA) | battles = [[American Civil War]] | rank = Assistant Adjutant General | unit = }}

'''Adolph Meyer''' (October 19, 1842 – March 8, 1908) was a [[Confederate States Army | Confederate]] veteran of the [[American Civil War | Civil War]] who served as a member of the [[U. S. House of Representatives]] representing the [[U.S. state|state]] of [[Louisiana]].<ref name="cd">{{cite web |title=S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903 |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-04562_00_00-001-0001-0000 |website=GovInfo.gov |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=2 July 2023 |page=41 |date=9 November 1903}}</ref> He served nine terms as a [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] from 1891 until his death in office in 1908.

==Biography== Meyer was born in to a [[Jews|Jewish]] family of German descent in [[Natchez, Mississippi]].<ref>[http://www.isjl.org/history/archive/main_la.htm ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005045404/http://www.isjl.org/history/archive/main_la.htm |date=October 5, 2007 }} at www.isjl.org ''<--dead link, April 2015.''</ref>

=== Confederate States Army === During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], Meyer served in the Confederate Army on the staff of [[Brigadier general (United States)|Brigadier General]] [[John Stuart Williams]] of [[Kentucky]] and attained the rank of assistant [[adjutant general]]. A [[Planter (American South)|planter]] in Mississippi and a banker in [[New Orleans]], he served in the [[Louisiana National Guard]], attaining the rank of brigadier general in 1881.<ref>''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress'', retrieved 28 Jan. 2016.</ref>

=== Congress === In 1890, he was elected to his first of nine consecutive terms in the [[United States House of Representatives | U.S. House of Representatives]]. He served until his death on October 19, 1908 at the age of 65.

==Namesakes== [[file:AlgiersNOLATubmanElemetarySchool.JPG|left|thumb|Harriet Tubman Elementary school, formerly Adolph S. Meyer Elementary School]] General Meyer Avenue in the [[Algiers, New Orleans|Algiers]] neighborhood in New Orleans is named in his honor for his efforts in lobbying for a U.S. Naval Yard in that area.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=dh0Oa1lkheAC&pg=PA107 ''Germans of Louisiana''] by Ellen C. Merrill. Pelican Publishing, 2014.</ref> The Avenue begins as Newton Street in Algiers Point, changes name to General Meyer Avenue at Behrman Avenue, and continues for approximately 4 miles, ending at Bennett Street in the Lower Algiers neighborhood.

The [[Adolph Meyer School]] (1917) was a school in Algiers on General Meyer Avenue; renamed to honor [[Harriet Tubman]] in the 1990s, the facility operates today as Harriet Tubman Charter School, one of Crescent City Schools' three charter elementary schools. In 2016, the building was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. It is located at the southeast corner of General Meyer and Behrman, across from the U.S. Naval Station Algiers Historic District and the city's Federal City complex.

==See also== {{Portal|Biography}} *[[List of Jewish members of the United States Congress]] *[[List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1900–1949)]]

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==External links== {{CongBio|M000679}} *{{Find a Grave|7204770}} *[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x004873490;view=1up;seq=7 Adolph Meyer, late a representative from Louisiana, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1909]

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