Tony Meeker

{{short description|American politician (born 1939)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Tony Meeker | image = Tony Meeker.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1939|3|18|mf=y}} | birth_place = Portland, Oregon, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | office = Oregon State Treasurer | term_start = July 9, 1987 | term_end = January 4, 1993 | governor = Neil Goldschmidt<br>Barbara Roberts | predecessor = Bill Rutherford (R) | successor = Jim Hill (D) | constituency = | state_senate2 = Oregon | district2 = 15th | term2 = 1972–1986 | preceded2 = | succeeded2 = Jim Bunn | state_house3 = Oregon | district3 = 29th | term3 = 1968–1972 | preceded3 = Harold V. Lewis | succeeded3 = Stan Bunn | party = Republican | occupation = Agricultural businessman | majority = | relations = | spouse = | children = | website = | footnotes = }}

'''Anthony Meeker''' (born March 18, 1939)<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=The Oregon Blue Book|author=Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State|date=1991|publisher=Secretary of State|isbn=9780924540110|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B3MkAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=2015-09-10}}</ref> is a politician in Oregon. He was appointed State Treasurer in 1987. Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt appointed him to fill the vacancy created when Bill Rutherford resigned from office. Meeker was elected to a full term in 1988. He had also served in the Oregon House of Representatives and in the Oregon State Senate. To date, Meeker is the most recent Republican State Treasurer of Oregon.

==Biography== Meeker was born in Amity, Oregon, in 1939.

In 1986, Tony Meeker ran for Congress against Democrat Les AuCoin in Oregon's first congressional district.<ref name="appoint">Mapes, Jeff. "MEEKER COMES OUT ON TOP, BUT DEMOCRATS COULD, TOO", ''The Oregonian''. Forum; Pg. B03. September 13, 1987.</ref> After losing to AuCoin, Meeker returned to the State Senate to continue his fifth term representing citizens in portions of Yamhill and Marion counties. Oregon State Treasurer Bill Rutherford announced he was stepping down to take a position in an investment firm in New York City.<ref name="appoint"/> On July 9, 1987 Democratic Governor Neil Goldschmidt appointed Meeker, a Republican, to replace Rutherford, also a Republican, to fill the remainder of Rutherford's term.<ref name="appoint"/> He made a second unsuccessful bid for U.S. Congress in 1992, losing to Elizabeth Furse. To date, he is the most recent Republican to serve as treasurer, as all subsequent treasurers have been Democrats.

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