George Meader (politician)

George Meader

George Meader (born September 13, 1907 in Benton Harbor , Michigan , †  October 15, 1994 in Ann Arbor , Michigan) was an American politician . Between 1951 and 1965 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Meader attended public schools in various cities in Michigan. Between 1923 and 1925 he studied at Ohio Wesleyan University and then until 1927 at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. After a subsequent law degree at the same university and his admission as a lawyer in 1931, he began to work in Ann Arbor in his new profession in 1932. Between 1941 and 1943 he was a district attorney in Washtenaw County . He was then from 1943 to 1947 legal advisor to a committee of the US Senate that reviewed the national defense program. From 1948 to 1950 he was an advisor to the Senate subcommittee dealing with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation .

Politically, Meader was a member of the Republican Party . In the 1956 congressional election he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Earl C. Michener on January 3, 1951 . After six re-elections, he was able to complete seven legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1965 . During this time the civil rights movement and the beginning of the Vietnam War fell . In addition, the 22nd and 23rd amendments to the Constitution were passed.

In the 1964 election, George Meader was defeated by the Democrat Weston E. Vivian . Between 1965 and 1968 he was an advisor to the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress . In the meantime he worked again as a lawyer before he again advised a congressional committee between 1971 and 1975. This time it was the Joint Committee on Congressional Operations . Then George Meader withdrew into his retirement, which he spent in the federal capital Washington. He died on October 15, 1994 in Ann Arbor.

Web links

• George Meader (politicians) in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George Meader in the database of Find a Grave (English)