Cowles Mead

Cowles Mead
Delegate-elect to the
U.S. House of Representatives
from the Mississippi Territory's
at-large district
In office
Not seated
Preceded byWilliam Lattimore
Succeeded byGeorge Poindexter (Representative)
Secretary of State of Mississippi
In office
1806–1807
GovernorRobert Williams
Preceded byThomas Hill Williams
Succeeded byThomas Hill Williams
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Georgia's at-large district
In office
March 4, 1805 – December 24, 1805
Preceded bySamuel Hammond
Succeeded byThomas Spalding
Personal details
Born(1776-10-18)October 18, 1776
Bedford County, Virginia, U.S.
DiedMay 17, 1844(1844-05-17) (aged 67)
Hinds County, Mississippi, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic-Republican

Cowles Mead (October 18, 1776 – May 17, 1844) was a United States representative from Georgia. Born in Virginia, he received an English education and became a private practice lawyer.

He presented credentials as a member-elect to the 9th United States Congress (March 4, 1805 – December 24, 1805) but was replaced by Thomas Spalding who contested the initial election outcome. Mead then served as Secretary of the Mississippi Territory, 1806–1807; Acting Governor of Mississippi Territory, 1806–1807; and member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, 1807 and 1822–23.

He was unsuccessful candidate for election to the 13th United States Congress in 1812. He was a delegate to the first constitutional convention for setting up the new State of Mississippi in 1817. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the 16th United States Congress in 1818. He served in the Mississippi Senate in 1821. He was later the Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Mississippi state legislature, from 1823 to 1827.[1] He was also an unsuccessful candidate for election as governor of Mississippi in 1825. He died 19 years later in 1844 on his Greenwood Plantation in Hinds County, Mississippi where he was buried.

  1. ^ Mississippi Official and Statistical Register. Secretary of State. 2004. p. 145.