George Meader

George Meader (* 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 U.S. 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 to 1927 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and its made ​​in 1931 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession from 1932 in Ann Arbor. Between 1941 and 1943 he was district attorney in Washtenaw County. After that, he was from 1943 to 1947 jurististischer adviser to a committee of the U.S. Senate who reviewed the national defense program. From 1948 to 1950 he was an advisor to the Senate subcommittee that dealt with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

Politically, Meader member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1956 he was in the second electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Earl C. Michener on January 3, 1951. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1965 seven legislative sessions. In this time, the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam fell. In addition, at that time the 22nd and the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution were adopted.

In the elections of 1964, George Meader was defeated by 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 again worked as a lawyer before he once advised a congressional committee 1971-1975. This was around the time the Joint Committee on Congressional Operations. After that, George Meader retired to his retirement, he spent in the capital Washington. He died on October 15, 1994 in Ann Arbor.

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