Wendell H. Meade

Wendell Howes Meade (January 18 1912–June 2 1986) served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky's 7th Congressional District during the Eightieth Congress (January 3 1947–January 3 1949). Before his election to congress, Meade was a practicing lawyer in Paintsville, Kentucky and served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy from November 1943 until January 1946. [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000619 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress] URL accessed 08/16/2006. ]

Education and career

Meade, born in Paintsville Kentucky, attended high school at Kentucky Military Institute at Lyndon, KY before attending Western State Teachers College, Bowling Green, KY from 1930 to 1933. After leaving Western, he engaged in the banking business from 1933 to 1936. Meade graduated from University of Louisville Law School in 1939 and was admitted to the bar the same year; opening a law practice in his Paintsville. [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000619 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress] URL accessed 08/16/2006. ]

Meade held several elected and appointed political positions. Elected to the Eightieth Congress in 1947, he served one term before he was unseated by Carl D. Perkins in 1948. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1951. Meade was zone operations commissioner, Federal Housing Administration, 1957-1961; Commissioner of Personnel, State of Kentucky, 1968 to February 1969; member, Kentucky Workman’s Compensation Board, 1969-1970. [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000619 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress] URL accessed 08/16/2006. ]

During his later years, Meade was a resident of Richmond, KY. Meade died in Lexington, KY on June 2, 1986. [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000619 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress] URL accessed 08/16/2006. ]

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