1. Matthew S Meyer was born on September 29,1971 and is an American politician and attorney.
22 Facts About Matt Meyer
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Matt Meyer was previously the New Castle County executive from 2017 to 2025.
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Matt Meyer was born in Bay City, Michigan, and grew up in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Matt Meyer graduated from Wilmington Friends School, Brown University, and the University of Michigan Law School.
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Matt Meyer worked on then-US senator Joe Biden's first presidential campaign in 1988 while in high school at the Wilmington Friends School.
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Matt Meyer then worked on the upstart, successful, 1990 gubernatorial campaign of Bruce Sundlun while attending Brown University.
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Matt Meyer joined Teach for America, and taught public school in Washington, DC for three years.
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Matt Meyer won a Skadden Fellowship upon graduation from law school and used it to work for Community Legal Aid in Wilmington.
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Matt Meyer then became an attorney working in mergers and acquisitions with Simpson Thatcher and Bartlett.
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Matt Meyer served in Iraq as a diplomat for the US State Department, as a senior economic adviser on the ground in Mosul, Iraq, working with military and economic aid leaders to assist the Iraqi people.
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In 2003 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Matt Meyer was awarded the Sam Beard Jefferson Award for the Greatest Public Service by an Individual 35 Years and Under; at that same ceremony Condoleezza Rice received a Jefferson Award.
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In 2020, Matt Meyer faced a primary challenge from more centrist Maggie Jones.
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Matt Meyer selected the first African-American police chief and chief administrative officer in the 106-year history of the New Castle County Police Department.
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Matt Meyer was awarded a regional Emmy in the Societal Concerns, Long-Form category at the 2022 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards as an executive producer on the short film "The Pathway Home" which chronicles the origins and first year of The Hope Center, a hotel-turn-homeless shelter New Castle County opened to house the homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Matt Meyer officially announced his campaign on June 6,2023.
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Matt Meyer became the party's nominee after winning the primary on September 10,2024.
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Matt Meyer's campaign focused on a progressive platform, with stated goals such as universal pre-K, universal free school meals, the cancellation of medical debt, police accountability, and a state constitutional amendment enshrining the right to abortion.
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Matt Meyer defeated Ramone, continuing the state's long streak of Democratic governors; no Republican had been elected since 1988.
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On January 24,2025, just days into his tenure, Matt Meyer signed an executive order aimed at streamlining the construction of affordable housing.
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In May 2017, Matt Meyer issued an executive order forbidding New Castle County law enforcement from stopping, questioning, searching, or arresting an individual because of their immigration status, and forbidding county officials from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement operations, effectively making New Castle County a sanctuary county.
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Matt Meyer is an advocate for the legalization of marijuana, and wrote an opinion piece in 2022 criticizing Governor John Carney's decision vetoing the bill to legalize marijuana in Delaware and encouraged the state legislature to override Carney's veto.
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Matt Meyer faced protests from police unions in 2017 and 2019 due to disagreement over contract negotiations.