US Congressman, Attorney, Educator. He was a United States Representative from the State of Indiana. He was born one of three children in Wilmington, Ohio, to Samuel Myers (1812-1895), and his wife Rebecca Cather Myer (1816-1839), on June 12, 1836. He also had five half-siblings, Carolyn, George, Oliver, Frank, and Jessie. He moved with his parents while still an infant to Anderson, Indiana, in October of 1836. He was educated locally and attended the common public schools and later worked as a teacher. He also worked as a Surveyor of Madison County, Indiana, from 1858 to 1860. During the American Civil War, he served his country after enlisting with the rank of Private in Company G, Forty-Seventh Regiment of the Indiana Volunteer Infantry, of the United States Army. He was eventually promoted to the rank of Orderly Sergeant, First Lieutenant, Second Lieutenant, and Captain, and he served a total of four years and three months. Following his military service, he returned to his teaching pursuits for a time and then served as the Superintendant of the Public Schools of Anderson, Indiana, from 1868 to 1869, and also served as a Member of the School Board of Anderson, Indiana, from 1879 to 1881. During this time he also studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1871, and set up his practice of law in Anderson, Indiana. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative Milton Stapp Robinson (1832-1892), on March 4, 1879. A Member of the Democratic Party, he then served Indiana's 6th District (Forty-Sixth Congress), in the United States House of Representatives, serving from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1881. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to represent the Forty-Seventh Congress in 1880. After leaving the United States Congress he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative Thomas McLelland Browne (1829-1891). He then served two terms as the Secretary of Indiana, his first term under then-Indiana Governors Albert Gallatin Porter (1824-1897), and Isaac Pusey Gray (1828-1895), from January 16, 1883, to January 16, 1887, having been preceded by Emanuel Ritter Hawn (1831-1883), and succeeded by Charles Fremont Griffin (1857-1902), and his second term under then Indian Governor Claude Matthews (1845-1898), from January 17, 1893, to January 17, 1895, having been preceded by Myron D. King (1851-1940), and succeeded by William Dale Owen (1846- ). During that time he also purchased the newspaper publication, "The Anderson Democrat," of Anderson, Indiana, and was its editor beginning in 1886, and launched an unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic nomination for the office of Governor of Indiana. Following his time in political office, he resumed his practice of law in Anderson, Indiana, until his death. He was also a Commander of the Indiana Loyal Legion and was prominent in many other societies including the Grand of the Army of the Republic, Grand Master of the Indiana Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, Member of the Presbyterian Church, and a Member of the Grand Army Visiting Board of the Soldiers and Sailor's Home in Knightstown, Indiana. He passed away following a short illness of apoplexy in Anderson, Indiana, on April 18, 1907, and was buried with full military honors in Maplewood Cemetery in Anderson, Indiana, with well over 100 people attending the funeral service. He was married to Mary F. Mershon Myers (1839-1892), in Madison County, Indiana, on June 7, 1858, and they were together until her death on February 21, 1892, and then to Florence McLean Stewart Myers (1844-1922), in Marion, Indiana, on September 5, 1894, and they were together until his death on April 18, 1907. He had no children with neither of his wives.