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==Political activities==

==Political activities==

For seven years, Meyer was the Republican chairman of [[Dallas|Dallas County]]; under his tenure the county became heavily Republican in orientation for two decades but reverted to [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] majority strength in 2006. In 1972, Meyer was the campaign manager in the successful long-shot race waged by Alan Steelman, a young Republican who unseated Earle Cabell to claim Texas's 3rd congressional district, formerly filled by another Republican, Bruce Reynolds Alger. Cabell was also a former mayor of Dallas. Steelman. however, gave up the seat in 1976 in a losing bid against Democratic [[U.S. Senator]] [[Lloyd Bentsen]]. Meyer was the chairman of the host committee which brought the 1984 [[Republican National Convention]] to Dallas. In 1987, Meyer lost the nonpartisan]] race for mayor of Dallas to the Democrat Annette Strauss but became state chairman the next year for the first of three two-year terms. He helped [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] George Herbert Walker Bush to win the presidency over [[Michael Dukakis]], with their mutual rival, Lloyd Bentsen, seeking to succeed Bush as vice president but losing out to Republican nominee [[Dan Quayle]].<ref name=meyer/>

For seven years, Meyer was the Republican chairman of [[Dallas|Dallas County]]; under his tenure the county became heavily Republican in orientation for two decades but reverted to [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] majority strength in 2006. In 1972, Meyer was the campaign manager in the successful long-shot race waged by Alan Steelman, a young Republican who unseated Earle Cabell to claim Texas's 3rd congressional district, formerly filled by another Republican, Bruce Reynolds Alger. Cabell was also a former mayor of Dallas. Steelman. however, gave up the seat in 1976 in a losing bid against Democratic [[U.S. Senator]] [[Lloyd Bentsen]]. Meyer was the chairman of the host committee which brought the 1984 [[Republican National Convention]] to Dallas. In 1987, Meyer lost the nominally nonpartisan race for mayor of Dallas to the Democrat Annette Strauss but became state Republican chairman the next year for the first of three consecutive two-year terms. He helped [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] George Herbert Walker Bush to win the presidency over [[Michael Dukakis]], with their mutual rival, Lloyd Bentsen, seeking to succeed Bush as vice president but losing out to Republican nominee [[Dan Quayle]].<ref name=meyer/>

Himself considered a [[Moderate Republican]], Meyer sterred clear of [[primary]] rivalries but supported his party nominees across the spectrum in each [[general election]].<ref name=meyer/> One of Meyer's successors as state chairman, Susan Weddington  of [[San Antonio]], by contrast, supported  conservative state Representative John Shields in his unsuccessful challenge in 2002 to state Senator Jeff Wentworth. Weddington opposed Wentworth's support for [[abortion]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.texasmonthly.com/content/mr-right/page/0/6|title=Mr. Right|publisher=''Texas Monthly''|author=Karen Olsson|date=November 2002|accessdate=March 19, 2015}}</ref> From 1972 forward, Meyer was a delegate to all Republican state conventions held every even year. For nine months, he headed the Victory 2000 Committee in [[Washington, D.C.]]; his work paid off with the election of the second President Bush.<ref name=meyer/>

Himself considered a [[Moderate Republican]], Meyer sterred clear of [[primary]] rivalries but supported his party nominees across the spectrum in each [[general election]].<ref name=meyer/> One of Meyer's successors as state chairman, Susan Weddington  of [[San Antonio]], by contrast, supported  conservative state Representative John Shields in his unsuccessful challenge in 2002 to state Senator Jeff Wentworth. Weddington opposed Wentworth's support for [[abortion]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.texasmonthly.com/content/mr-right/page/0/6|title=Mr. Right|publisher=''Texas Monthly''|author=Karen Olsson|date=November 2002|accessdate=March 19, 2015}}</ref> From 1972 forward, Meyer was a delegate to all Republican state conventions held every even year. For nine months, he headed the Victory 2000 Committee in [[Washington, D.C.]]; his work paid off with the election of the second President Bush.<ref name=meyer/>