| LC control no. | no2003012809 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Mead, James M. (James Michael), 1885-1964 |
| Variant(s) | Mead, James M. (James Michael), b. 1885 |
| Birth date | 18851227 |
| Death date | 19640315 |
| Place of birth | Mount Morris (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Lakeland (Fla.) |
| Affiliation | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate United States. Federal Trade Commission New York (State). Department of Commerce |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators--United States |
| Found in | Tell the folks back home, c1944: t.p. (U.S. Senator James M. Mead) OCLC, Feb. 10, 2003 (hdg.: Mead, James M. (James Michael), 1885- ; Mead, James Michael, 1885- ; usage: James M. Mead) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, October 16, 2013 (Mead, James Michael (1885 - 1964); 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 on November 8, 1938, 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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