Slade Mead
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Slade Mead | |
|---|---|
| State Senator | |
| Constituency | Arizona |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 6, 1961 Torrington, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Party | Democratic |
Slade Mead is a former Arizona State Senator and is Republican turned Democrat.[1]
Mead was born on September 6, 1961, in Torrington, Connecticut. Both of his parents were teachers, and later on his two siblings would become teachers as well. He graduated from Taft School, studied at Yale University, where he was a member of Wolf's Head Society and, for a year in between his undergraduate and law school education, taught high school as well.[citation needed] Is currently the college counselor at Trinity Pawling School in Pawling, New York and teaches there as well.
In 1996, he and his wife, Alison, moved to Arizona with their two children, Lindsay and Sierra, from Virginia. His eldest daughter, Lindsay, is a special needs child with a rare form of epilepsy, a severe seizure disorder. It is his daughter that eventually drove Slade into the political arena.