Overview
Matthew S. Meyer is an American politician and attorney who is currently serving his second term as New Castle county executive. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected New Castle county executive in 2016 and again in 2020. He has been described as a progressive.
Meyer is a candidate in the 2024 Delaware gubernatorial election to replace term-limited incumbent governor John Carney.
Early life and education
Meyer was born in Bay City, Michigan, and grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. He graduated from Wilmington Friends School, Brown University (cum laude in political science and computer science), and the University of Michigan Law School (member, Michigan Law Review).
Meyer worked on then-U.S. senator Joe Biden’s first presidential campaign in 1988 while in high school at the Wilmington Friends School. He then worked on the upstart, successful, 1990 gubernatorial campaign of Bruce Sundlun while attending Brown University.
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