John A. Mead

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". John Abner Mead (April 20, 1841Template:Spaced ndashJanuary 12, 1920) was an American physician, businessman and politician who served as 47th lieutenant governor of Vermont from 1908 to 1910, and the 53rd governor of Vermont, from 1910 to 1912.

Biography

Mead was born in Fair Haven, Vermont, to Roswell and Lydia Mead (née Gorham). He was educated at the common school in West Rutland and at Franklin Academy in Malone, New York. He began attendance at Middlebury College but interrupted his studies to enlist in the Union Army for the American Civil War. Mead joined Company K, 12th Vermont Infantry Regiment, serving from 1862 to 1863. After mustering out of the military, he graduated from Middlebury College in 1864. While at Middlebury he joined the Alpha Alpha chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) Fraternity.

In 1868 he received a medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York City.

He married Mary Madelia Sherman in 1872 and they had one daughter, Mary Sherman Mead.[1] Mary Mead's son and John A. Mead's grandson John A. M. Hinsman served as President of the Vermont Senate from 1945 to 1947.[2][3]

Career

Mead practiced medicine in New York City for two years, and in Rutland from 1870 to 1888, when he was appointed chair of the medical department at the University of Vermont. A Republican, Mead served in the Vermont Senate from 1892 to 1893. When Rutland City became a separate municipality from Rutland Town, Mead served as the city's first Mayor, holding office from 1893 to 1894. In 1893 he was a Vermont Commissioner for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Mead served in the Vermont House of Representatives in 1906 and was Lieutenant Governor from 1908 to 1910.

Mead was elected governor in 1910 and served from October 5, 1910 to October 3, 1912. During his tenure, he presided over the state legislature's reapportionment of state senatorial districts and legislation was enacted during his administration establishing a State School of Agriculture, requiring the registration of nurses, and providing for a direct primary.[4]

After his governorship, Mead resumed his business interests. He was president of Baxter National Bank,[5] Howe Scale Company,[6] and John A. Mead Manufacturing Company.[7] He was also a director of the Rutland Railroad.[8][9][10]

Mead was a Trustee of Middlebury College, the University of Vermont and Norwich University; all three conferred the honorary degree of LL.D. upon him in 1911.[11] He made substantial donations to Middlebury, including the financing of its Mead Memorial Chapel which was constructed in 1916.[12]Template:Efn He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1912, and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.

Death

Mead died of pneumonia at his home in Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, on January 12, 1920. He is interred in Rutland's Evergreen Cemetery.[13]

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  5. ↑ The Bankers Magazine, The New England States, Volume 73, 1906, page 1061
  6. ↑ National magazine, The Western Slope, Volume 38, 1913, page 1039
  7. ↑ William Arba Ellis, Norwich University, 1819–1911, Volume 3, 1911, page 536
  8. ↑ Vermont Secretary of State, State Officers' Reports, 1886, page 112
  9. ↑ Rutland Railroad Company, Annual Report, 1886, page 10
  10. ↑ Peter S. Jennison, Roadside History of Vermont, 1989, page 40
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