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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | James M. Mead |
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Buffalo, New York , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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December 27, 1885
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| Died | March 15, 1964
(78 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | MEAD, James Michael, a Representative and a Senator from New York; born in Mount Morris, Livingston County, N.Y., December 27, 1885; moved to Buffalo, N.Y., with his parents in 1890; attended the grammar, technical, and evening schools of Buffalo, N.Y.; employed as a water boy, lamplighter, spike mauler, and switchman on various railroads; member of the Capitol police force in Washington, D.C., in 1911; served on the board of supervisors of Erie County in 1914; member, State assembly 1915-1918; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until his resignation on December 2, 1938; was not a candidate for renomination in 1938, having become a candidate for Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Royal S. Copeland; reelected in 1940 and served from December 3, 1938, to January 3, 1947; was not a candidate for renomination in 1946; unsuccessful for the gubernatorial nomination in 1942 and for election as Governor in 1946; member of the Federal Trade Commission 1949-1955; director of Washington office of the New York Department of Commerce 1955-1956; moved to Clermont, Fla., in 1954 and operated an orange grove until his death in Lakeland, Fla., on March 15, 1964; interment in Oakhill Cemetery, Clermont, Fla.
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