Cowles Mead

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Cowles Mead (October 18, 1776 - September 12, 1844) was a United States Representative from Georgia. He was born in Virginia. He received an English education and then became a private practice lawyer.

Mead had a controversial stay in Congress. He presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Ninth Congress (March 4, 1805-December 24, 1805), but was replaced by Thomas Spalding, who contested his election. He 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 1822-1823. He was unsuccessful candidate for election to the Thirteenth Congress in 1812. He was a delegate to the first constitutional convention of Mississippi in 1817. He was unsuccessful candidate for election to the Sixteenth Congress in 1818. He served in the Mississippi Senate, 1821. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election as Governor of Mississippi in 1825. He died in 1844 on his plantation, “Greenwood" in Hinds County, Mississippi. He was buried on his estate.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress