William H. Meyer Papers

William Henry Meyer was born in Philadelphia, Pa., on December 29, 1914, and attended the public schools of the city, and graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1936. He worked as a timber cruiser, State and Federal forester, Civilian Conservation Corns technician and supervisor in West Virginia, Maryland, Wisconsin, and New Jersey from 1936 to 1940. He moved to a farm in Bennington County, Vt. in 1945, and was with the Soil Conservation Service in Vermont from 1940 to 1950. In 1951 he entered private practice as a consulting forester and became executive director of the Vermont Forest and Farmland Foundation and chairman of Vermont Forest Festival Committee and Vermont Land Use Conference. Meyer was a delegate to the State Democratic Convention in 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968 and was elected U. S. Congressman to the Eighty-sixth Congress on Nov. 4, 1958. While in Congress, Meyer served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and participated in Democratic Study Groups, the Liberal Project, the Foreign Policy Discussion Group, and others. After his unsuccessful campaign for re-election in 1960, he was appointed as consultant to the Technical Review Staff of the Department of Interior (1961-1963). Meyer was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator in 1962, 1964, and 1970. He was president and chairman of the New England United World Federalists, 1962-1964; finance secretary to Farmers and World Affairs, 1966, and founder of Liberty Union in 1970. He is presently engaged as natural resources consultant. William Meyer is a resident of West Rupert, Vt.