Hugh Allen Meade (April 4, 1907 – July 8, 1949) was a

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, representing the second district of

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from 1947 to 1949. Born in Netcong,

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, Meade attended the public schools. He moved to

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, Maryland in 1923 and graduated from Loyola High School in 1925, and from

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in 1929. He later graduated from the

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in 1932 and was admitted to the bar in 1933 Meade served as secretary to

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, in 1934. He was later a member of the

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from 1934 to 1936, supervisor of assessments of the city of Baltimore from 1936 1938, and Assistant

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from 1938 to 1946. During World War II, Meade served in the

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as a lieutenant in 1944 and 1945. He resigned from the attorney general's office in 1946 to enter the private practice of law. He was elected as a

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in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1948, and served one full term from January 3, 1947, to January 3, 1949. After Congress, Meade was appointed general counsel of the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee of the United States House of Representatives in January 1949 and served until his death in Washington, D.C. He is interred in the

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in Baltimore.

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