Terms of Service

• House, 15th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
  4/18/1876 - 1/14/1879
  Republican
  

(1) Representative apportionment - Ordinance adopted by Constitutional Convention of the State of Texas, 1875. "Twenty-seventh District - The county of Robertson shall elect two representatives." University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History. Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

• G.U. Mead, Leon County [sic]. House Journal .

Photographs

• Photograph. G.U. Mead, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Census of 1880 - Geo. U. Mead, Calvert, Robertson County, age 48, born circa 1832 in New York, widowed, physician. FamilySearch .
• G.W. Mead in "Ready to make laws . . . Eighty members present (House)" (organization of the 15th Legislature), 4/19/1876, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
• George G. Mead. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
• Death notice, "Dr. G.U. Mead," The Galveston Daily News, 6/5/1894, p. 1. Death date 6/3/1894, burial in Calvert City Cemetery. "He was a member of the 15th legislature . . ." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
• Biographical sketch, George U. Mead, practicing as doctor of medicine in Calvert, Robertson County, Republican, pp. 91-92. Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878 1876.
• George G. Mead. Texas House of Representatives: A Pictorial Roster 1846-1992 1992.

Committee Information

• 15th R.S. - 1876
• Internal Improvements  
• Private Land Claims  
• Public Health, Vital Statistics, and History of Texas  
• State Asylums