Matt Mead
Matthew Hansen " Matt" Mead ( born March 11, 1962 at the Teton County, Wyoming) is an American lawyer and politician ( Republican). In November 2010 he was elected governor of the state of Wyoming; he took up on January 3, 2011, this office.
Matt Mead comes from a family of politicians. His mother Mary, who died in 1996 at the consequences of a riding accident in 1990 competed as a Republican candidate for the governorship, but lost significantly against the Democratic incumbent Mike Sullivan. Her father, Clifford P. Hansen, Matt Mead's grandfather was governor of Wyoming and U.S. Senator for that State.
Mead grew up in Jackson; he has a brother and a sister. In 1987 he graduated from the Law School of the University of Wyoming to the Juris Doctor, and he struck a career as a lawyer. He worked occasionally as a partner in a private law firm and was a prosecutor in Campbell County, before 2001 he was appointed to the Attorney General for the State of Wyoming. This office he held until 2007 in Cheyenne. In that year he resigned to apply first for political office. After U.S. Senator Craig L. Thomas had died, it was up loud Constitution of the Republican Party of Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal propose three possible successors, from which he had to make the choice. To this end, there was a choice within the Republican Central Committee, missed third place by 14 votes in the Mead. New senator John Barrasso.
Prior to the election for governor in 2010 Mead announced his intra-party candidate for the post. The popular Democratic Governor Freudenthal could not run again due to term limits; Surveys have already said before the Republican Primary requires a change of power. Mead won the vote of his party with 30 272 votes before the State Auditor Rita Meyer ( 29 558 ), the rancher Ron Micheli ( 27 592 ) and the long favored Colin M. Simpson ( 16,673 ), the Speaker of the House of Representatives from Wyoming.
The actual election on November 2, 2010 confirmed the previous surveys. Mead sat down with a clear lead against Democrat Leslie Petersen and then broke early January 2011 from Dave Freudenthal.