Matt Mead

Matt Mead (2012)

Matthew Hansen "Matt" Mead (born March 11, 1962 in Teton County , Wyoming ) is an American lawyer and politician ( Republican Party ). In November 2010, he was elected governor of the state of Wyoming; he took up this position on January 3, 2011. He was re-elected in November 2014. Due to tenure restrictions in the Wyoming Constitution, his second term ended on January 7, 2019, and was succeeded by Mark Gordon .

Career

Matt Mead comes from a family of politicians. His mother Mary, who died in 1996 as a result of a riding accident, applied as a Republican candidate for governor in 1990, but lost significantly to the Democratic incumbent Mike Sullivan . Her father, Clifford P. Hansen , Matt Mead's grandfather, was Governor of Wyoming and the United States Senator for that state.

Mead grew up in Jackson ; he has a brother and a sister. In 1987 he acquired the College of Law of the University of Wyoming to Juris Doctor , and he struck a career as a lawyer. He worked intermittently as a partner in a private law firm and was a district attorney in Campbell County before being appointed state attorney for the state of Wyoming in 2001 . He held this office in Cheyenne until 2007 . That year he resigned to run for the first time for political office. After US Senator Craig L. Thomas died, it was up to the State Constitution of the Republican Party of Wyoming to propose three possible successors to Governor Dave Freudenthal , from whom he had to choose. To this end, there was an election within the Republican Central Committee, in which Mead missed third place by 14 votes. John Barrasso became the new Senator .

In the run-up to the 2010 gubernatorial election , Mead announced his intra-party candidacy for the office. The popular democratic governor Freudenthal could not run again due to a term limit; Polls predicted a change of power even before the Republican primary . Mead won his party's vote with 30,272 votes ahead of state auditor Rita Meyer (29,558), rancher Ron Micheli (27,592) and long-time favorite Colin M. Simpson (16,673), Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives .

The actual election on November 2, 2010 confirmed the previous polls. Mead prevailed with a clear lead over the Democrat Leslie Petersen and then replaced Dave Freudenthal in early January 2011.

In August 2014, Mead was nominated by his party for a second term. In the November 4, 2014 gubernatorial election , he ran against Peter Gosar , the former leader of the Wyoming Democrats. Mead was able to win this election with 62.5% of the vote without any problems, which confirmed him for a second term.

Web links

Commons : Matt Mead  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Matt Mead in nndb (English)
• Project Vote Smart (English)
• Matt Mead in the database of the National Governors Association (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wyoming News: Easy win for Mead .