Adolph Meyer (October 19, 1842 – March 8, 1908) was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the

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. He served nine terms as a Democrat from 1891 until his death in office in 1908.

Biography

Meyer was born in to a

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family of German descent in

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. During the

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, Meyer served in the Confederate Army on the staff of

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and attained the rank of assistant

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. A planter in Mississippi and a banker in

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, he served in the

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, attaining the rank of brigadier general in 1881.

Namesakes

left, Harriet Tubman Elementary school, formerly Adolph S. Meyer Elementary School General Meyer Avenue in the

Algiers Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques d ...

neighborhood in New Orleans is named in his honor for his efforts in lobbying for a U.S. Naval Yard in that area.''Germans of Louisiana''
by Ellen C. Merrill. Pelican Publishing, 2014. 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 The Adolph Meyer School, at 2013 General Meyer Ave. in New Orleans, Louisiana, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. It is an elementary school in the Algiers, New Orleans neighborhood. Quadrangular in plan, it is a two- ...

(1917) was a school in Algiers on General Meyer Avenue; renamed to honor

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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

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. 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.

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Adolph Meyer, late a representative from Louisiana, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1909
1842 births 1908 deaths Jewish American military personnel American people of German-Jewish descent American planters Jewish Confederates Jewish American bankers Jewish members of the United States House of Representatives Confederate States Army officers People of Louisiana in the American Civil War 19th-century American politicians National Guard (United States) generals Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana {{AmericanCivilWar-bio-stub

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