Mary Mead

Who is Mary Mead?

Mary Elisabeth Hansen Mead was a rancher, businesswoman, and a Republican politician in the U.S. state of Wyoming. She was the daughter of Governor and U.S. Senator Clifford P. Hansen and the mother of current Governor Matt Mead.

In 1990, Mead was the unsuccessful GOP nominee for governor, having been defeated by the incumbent Democrat Michael J. Sullivan of Douglas in Converse County in southeastern Wyoming. In the general election, Sullivan prevailed with 104,638 votes to Mead's 55,471 ballots. Mead polled only 4,311 more votes against Sullivan than she had received in her closed primary in August and was hence unable to procure support beyond her party base.