Patrick Mead (Napoleon's World)

Patrick Radley Mead (born July 13, 1954) is an American politician who was the Governor of Huron from 2003 to 2011 and was the Nationalist nominee for President in the 2008 Presidential election, which he narrowly lost to Jay Leno. Prior to the Governorship, Mead was a US Representative from Huron from 1999-2003 and was the Speaker of the Huron State Senate from 1995-1999, where he was an off-and-on political ally or enemy to Democratic Governor James Carrey, and served in the Huron State Senate from 1991-1999. He is a member of Huron's Mead family, a powerful Irish Catholic political dynasty of which he is the third member to serve as Governor and seventh to be involved in Huron state politics.