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MEYER, George von Lengerke Son of George Augustus Meyer and Grace Helen, daughter of William Parker, Boston, and granddaughter of Bishop Parker, Massachusetts.
MEYER, George von Lengerke Son of George Augustus Meyer and Grace Helen, daughter of William Parker, Boston, and granddaughter of Bishop Parker, Massachusetts.
Two d. Graduated, Harvard, 1879. Member of the City Government of Boston, 1889-92. Member of the Massachusetts Legislature, 1892-97.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1894-97. Chairman of the Massachusetts Board, Paris Exposition Commissioners, 1898. Member, Republican National Committee from Massachusetts, 1898 -1904.
United States Ambassador to Italy, 1900-5 to Russia, 1905-7. Postmaster-General, 1907-9. Chevalier Grand Cross, Grand Cordon of Steamship Maurizio e Lazzaro, Italy.
Of Alexander Nevsky, Russia. Of Rising Sun, Japan. Since 1909.
Clubs: Somerset, Boston; Knickerbocker, New York; Metropolitan, Washington.
Spouse 1885, Alice,daughter of Charles H. Appleton and Isabella,daughter of Jonathan Mason, Boston.