George L. Meade
George L. Meade (April 25, 1869 in Clyde, Wayne County, New York – January 11, 1925 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Life[]
He attended Clyde High School, and graduated from Lebanon University (Ohio) in 1892. Then he studied law in Rochester, was admitted to the bar in 1896, and practiced in Rochester. He was Supervisor of the 6th Ward of Rochester in 1903.
Meade was a member of the New York State Assembly (Monroe Co., 3rd D.) in 1908; and a member of the New York State Senate (45th D.) in the 1909 and 1910.
He was Deputy Attorney General of New York, in charge of the trial of cases before the New York Court of Claims, from 1915 to 1923.
He died on January 11, 1925 at his home in Rochester, New York, from heart disease.
Sources[]
- Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, Vol. IV; pg. 355 and 367)
- Rochester politicians at NY Gen Web
- BALKS AT PRIMARIES in NYT on October 13, 1910
- FORMER STATE OFFICIAL DIES in The Morning Herald, of Gloversville, on January 12, 1925
- 1869 births
- 1925 deaths
- New York (state) state senators
- New York (state) Republicans
- Politicians from Rochester, New York
- Members of the New York State Assembly
- People from Clyde, New York
- Lawyers from Rochester, New York
- 19th-century American lawyers