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Robert Baumle Meyner (3 July 1908-27 May 1990) was the Democratic Governor of New Jersey from 19 January 1954 to 16 January 1962, succeeding Alfred E. Driscoll and preceding Richard J. Hughes.

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Robert Baumle Meyner was born in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1908 the son of a German immigrant father and a Swiss mother, and he was raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. He worked as a coremaker and weaver before becoming a law clerk in Union City, and he served as a lieutenant commander in the US Navy during World War II. He went on to serve in the State Senate from 1948 to 1952 and as Governor from 1954 to 1962; from 1975 to 1979, his wife Helen Stevenson Meyner served in the US Congress. He died in Captiva, Florida in 1990.

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