Cowles Mead (October 18, 1776 – May 17, 1844) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, he received an

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education and became a private practice

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. He presented credentials as a member-elect to the

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(March 4, 1805 – December 24, 1805) but was replaced by

Thomas Spalding Thomas Spalding (March 25, 1774 – January 4, 1851) was a United States representative from Georgia. He was born in Frederica, Georgia, St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1795, but did not ...

who contested the initial election outcome. Mead then served as Secretary of the

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, 1806–1807; Acting Governor of Mississippi, 1806–1807; and member of the

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, 1807 and 1822–23. He was unsuccessful candidate for election to the

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in 1812. He was a delegate to the first constitutional convention of Mississippi in 1817. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the

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in 1818. He served in the

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in 1821. He was the Speaker of the

from 1823 to 1827. He was also an unsuccessful candidate for election as governor of Mississippi in 1825. He died in 1844 on his Greenwood Plantation in

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where he was buried.

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