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Mary Elisabeth Hansen Mead (June 21, 1935 - June 21, 1996) 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 Hansen〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obituary of 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 Mike Sullivan of Douglas in Converse County in southeastern Wyoming. In the general election, Sullivan prevailed with 104,638 votes (65.4 percent) to Mead's 55,471 ballots (34.6 percent). 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.〔Wyoming Secretary of State, Gubernatorial election returns, November 6, 1990〕 ==Biography== Mead was born in Jackson, Wyoming, to Clifford Peter Hansen (1912-2009), a native of Lincoln County, Wyoming, and the former Martha Close (1914-2011), who was reared in Sheridan, Wyoming.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Martha Hansen, Gov. Mead's grandmother, dies )〕 Her brother, Peter Arthur Hansen (born 1936), resides in Cheyenne, Wyoming. In 1957, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Wyoming in Laramie. She married Peter Bradford Mead (born 1933), who coincidentally partly bears the same name as her father, brother, and grandfather. For more than twenty years, she and Peter managed the family cattle ranch, originally homesteaded by her grandparents, Peter Christofferson Hansen and the former Sylvia Irene Wood. The Meads reared three children. After their divorce, she ran the ranch with her parents and then with her older son, Bradford Scott Mead, and his wife, Katherine L. "Kate" Mead〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mary Mead )〕 (both born 1957), a native of Vermont, who came to Wyoming on a skiing scholarship and in 2006 was the Republican nominee for the District 16 seat in the Wyoming House of Representatives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wyoming general election returns, November 7, 2006 )〕 In 1995, she married Dick Steinhour.〔 Mead's former husband, Peter Mead, resides in Tetonia, Idaho. Mead was a president of the Wyoming Business Alliance and a member of the University of Wyoming Alumni Board, the Wyoming Centennial Commission, and the National Public Lands Advisory Council. She was active in both the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, of which her father was the president from 1953 to 1955, and the Wyoming Tax Payers Association. In Jackson, she sat on the boards of St. John's Hospital and the Jackson State Bank.〔 She lived on the Mead Ranch, officially the "Lower Bar BC", which prior to its salefor more than $100 millionwas one of the largest pastoral private holdings in Teton County. The Hansens and Meads were particularly known for conservation and stewardship activities on their properties.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mead Ranch on the Block )〕 By December 2001, the Lower Bar BC had become no longer economically productive and surrendered its lease in Grand Teton Park.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jack Clinton, "Grand Teton rancher gives up grazing lease" )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Mead」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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