Hugh Meade

Hugh Allen Meade ( born April 4, 1907 in Netcong, Morris County, New Jersey; † July 8, 1949 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1947 and 1949 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Hugh Meade attended the public schools of his home. In 1923 he moved to Baltimore in Maryland. There he attended until 1925, the Loyola High School and thereafter until 1929, the Loyola College. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Maryland and his 1933 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Baltimore in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1934 he was on the staff of Governor Albert Ritchie. From 1934 to 1936 Meade sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland; 1938-1946 he was Deputy Attorney General of that State. This period was interrupted in 1944 and 1945 in the years through his military service in World War II, in which he took part as an officer in the U.S. Navy.

In the congressional elections of 1946, Meade was elected in the second district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Harry Streett Baldwin on 3 January 1947. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1948, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1949. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Hugh Meade was advisor to the Congress Committee, which dealt with the fishing and the merchant navy. He died on 8 July 1949 in the German capital Washington and was buried in Baltimore.

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