US Congressman. He was also known as George D. Meiklejohn. He was born in Weyauwega, Wisconsin, to Peter Meiklejohn and Hannah Wright Meiklejohn and wad educated in local common and public schools and attended the Wisconsin State Normal School in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. After his education, he was a principal of several schools in his hometown of Weyauwega, Wisconsin, and Liscomb, Iowa. He graduated from the Michigan University Law Department in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1880, and was admitted to the bar and commenced to practicing after relocating to Fullerton, Nebraska. In 1880, he was also named as the Prosecuting Attorney for Nance County, Nebraska, serving in that position from 1881 to 1884. He then entered public service and was elected as a Member of the Nebraska State Senate and served from 1884 to 1888. He also served as the President of the Nebraska State Senate from 1886 to 188, Chairman of the Republican State Convention in 1887, Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee in 1887 and 1888, and as the Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska from 1889 to 1891. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected in 1892. A Republican, he then served Nebraska's 13th District (Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses) in the United States House of Representatives from 1893 to 1897. He was not a candidate for renomination and did not run for reelection in 1896. He was succeeded by United States Representative Samuel Maxwell. After his term in the United States Congress had expired on March 3, 1897, he was personally chosen by then-President William McKinley to serve as the Assistant Secretary of War beginning on April 14, 1897. He continued to serve in that position throughout the Spanish-American War until his resignation from office in March of 1901. That same year he ran as an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy left by the death of United States Representative Monroe Leland Hayward on December 5, 1899. After leaving politics, he returned to his practice of law in Omaha, Nebraska, for many years. In 1918, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he continued with his practice of law and was also involved in mining pursuits. He passed away at the Los Angeles County General Hospital in Los Angeles, California, from heart disease at the age of 71. At the time of his death, he had been living in poverty. Noted as a generous man he had given most of his fortune away to others over the years.