Michael Meo

Michael Meo is a Pacific Green candidate in the 2008 congressional elections for the 3rd Congressional District (map) of Oregon.

2008 elections
Meo is a Pacific Green candidate in the 2008 congressional elections for the 3rd Congressional District.

Committees
Meo will be assigned committees if and when he is elected to Congress.

Affiliations
Michael Meo is a member of the following organizations:

Historians Against the War; American Near East Refugee Aid; Rose City Astronomers; Mathematical Association of America; Physicians for a National Health Plan, among others

More background data
Meo received a Bachelor's degree (in Astronomy) from California Institute of Technology in 1969, and a Master's degree (in European History, with a specialization in the Early Modern period) in 1970.

He was incarcerated in Federal Correction Institution, Lompoc, California, in 1971 and 1972 for refusing the draft during the War in Vietnam. He requested and received a federal pardon from Gerald Ford subsequent to his release.

Meo has taught in the Portland Public Schools since 1989, and is now the chair of mathematics at Benson Polytechnic High School in Portland and adjunct professor of mathematics at Portland State University. He received a master's degree in mathematics (with emphasis on differential geometry) in 1999 from Portland State University.

Meo has published studies in the history of astronomy, physics, and mathematics, including a translation of Karl Marx's mathematical manuscripts, which appeared in 1983 and is still in print.

Contact
Michael Meo for Congress campaign website

External resources

 * Michael Meo for Congress campaign website
 * 2008 Race Tracker page on Oregon’s 3rd congressional district