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Cowles Mead
Delegate-elect to the
U.S. House of Representatives
from the Mississippi Territory's
at-large district
In office
Not seated
Preceded by William Lattimore
Succeeded by George Poindexter (Representative)
Secretary of State of Mississippi
In office
1806–1807
Governor Robert Williams
Preceded by Thomas Hill Williams
Succeeded by Thomas Hill Williams
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Georgia's at-large district
In office
March 4, 1805 – December 24, 1805
Preceded by Samuel Hammond
Succeeded by Thomas Spalding
Personal details
Born(1776-10-18)October 18, 1776
Bedford County, Virginia, U.S.
DiedMay 17, 1844(1844-05-17) (aged 67)
Hinds County, Mississippi, U.S.
Political party Democratic-Republican

Cowles Mead (October 18, 1776 – May 17, 1844) was a United States representative from Georgia. Born in Virginia, he received an English education and became a private practice lawyer.

He presented credentials as a member-elect to the 9th United States Congress (March 4, 1805 – December 24, 1805) but was replaced by Thomas Spalding who contested the initial election outcome. Mead then served as Secretary of the Mississippi Territory, 1806–1807; Acting Governor of Mississippi, 1806–1807; and member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, 1807 and 1822–23.

He was unsuccessful candidate for election to the 13th United States Congress in 1812. He was a delegate to the first constitutional convention of Mississippi in 1817. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the 16th United States Congress in 1818. He served in the Mississippi Senate in 1821. He was the Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1823 to 1827. [1] He was also an unsuccessful candidate for election as governor of Mississippi in 1825. He died in 1844 on his Greenwood Plantation in Hinds County, Mississippi where he was buried.

References

  1. ^ Mississippi Official and Statistical Register. Secretary of State. 2004. p. 145.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from the Georgia's at-large congressional district

1805
Succeeded by
Preceded by Delegate-elect to the U.S. House of Representatives
from the Mississippi Territory's at-large congressional district

1817
Succeeded byas U.S. Representative
Political offices
Preceded by Secretary of State of Mississippi
1806–1807
Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by Democratic-Republican nominee for Governor of Mississippi
1825
Party dissolved