Matt Mead

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Matthew H. "Matt" Mead (born ca. 1962) is a former United States Attorney based in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He served under appointment of U.S. President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2007. He is the grandson of former Governor and U.S. Senator Clifford Hansen. Mead resigned as U.S. Attorney to seek the seat vacated by the death of his fellow Republican Craig L. Thomas. In order to file his papers for the Senate, as required under the Hatch Act of 1939, Mead had to relinquish the U.S. attorney's position. He lost in the Republican State Central Committee by fourteen votes on the third ballot from being one of the three candidates from which Democratic Governor Dave Freudenthal could make his selection. Freudenthal ended up choosing state Senator John Barrasso, a Republican from Casper. Barrasso must contest the seat for a four-year term in 2008.

Mead is the son of Peter Mead and Mary Hansen Mead (1935-1996), who was the GOP gubernatorial nominee in 1990. Mary Mead, considered an expert horsewoman, was killed in a horseback accident while working cattle in Grand Teton National Park. Mead grew up in Wyoming. He has an older brother, Bradford Scott Mead of Jackson and an older sister, Muffy Mead-Ferro of Salt Lake City, Utah.

Mead is considered a possible candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2008 or for governor in 2010.