Henry Lee Myers (October 9, 1862 – November 11, 1943) was a

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from

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Biography

Born near Boonville, Missouri, he attended Cooper Institute and Boonville Academy, both private schools. He studied law and was admitted to the

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in 1884, commencing practice in Boonville. He moved to

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in 1893, and was

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from 1895 to 1899. He was a member of the Montana Senate from 1899 to 1903, and was a district judge of the fourth judicial district of Montana from 1907 to 1911. Myers was elected as a

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to the U.S. Senate in 1910 and reelected in 1916, serving from March 4, 1911 until March 3, 1923. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1922. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Sixty-third Congress) and a member of the Committees on Public Lands (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), and Indian Depredations (Sixty-sixth Congress). In 1923, he moved to

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and continued the practice of his profession. He was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of Montana in 1927 and once again resumed the practice of law in 1929. He died in

in 1943 and was interred in Riverview Cemetery in

References

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