Wendell H. Meade

Wendell Howes Meade (born January 18, 1912 in Paintsville , Kentucky , † June 2, 1986 in Lexington , Kentucky) was an American politician . Between 1947 and 1949 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Wendell Meade attended public schools in his home country. He then graduated from high school at the Kentucky Military Institute in Lyndon in 1929 . From 1930 to 1933 Meade studied at the Western State Teachers College at Bowling Green . He then worked in the banking industry until 1936. After studying law at the University of Louisville and his admission as a lawyer in 1939, he began to work in Paintsville in this profession. During World War II , Meade was a lieutenant in the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946 . He was mainly used in the South Pacific. After the war he practiced as a lawyer again. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party .

In the 1946 congressional election , Meade was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the seventh constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Democrat Andrew J. May on January 3, 1947 . Since he lost to Carl D. Perkins in the following elections in 1948 , he was only able to complete one term in Congress until January 3, 1949 . In 1951, he sought unsuccessfully to nominate his party for the gubernatorial elections in Kentucky.

Between 1957 and 1961, Meade worked for the Federal Housing Administration . He then worked for a construction company in Phoenix ( Arizona ). In 1968 and 1969 he served as the state commissioner for the Kentucky government for human resources management. From 1969 to 1970 he was a member of the committee that dealt with employee benefit claims (Workman's Compensation). Wendell Meade spent the last years of his life in Richmond and died on June 2, 1986 in Lexington.

Web links

• Wendell H. Meade in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)