John Meek Whitehead | |
Birth Date: | 29 July 1852 |
Birth Place: | Hillsboro, Illinois |
Death Place: | Janesville, Wisconsin |
Occupation: | Lawyer, politician |
Party: | Republican |
Office: | Member of the Wisconsin State Senate |
Constituency: | District 22 |
Term Start: | 1896 |
Term End: | 1912 |
John Meek Whitehead (July 29, 1852 – August 31, 1924) was a politician in the state of Wisconsin.
Whitehead was born on July 29, 1852, to Jacob and Elizabeth Ann Whitehead near Hillsboro, Illinois.[1] He married twice, first on July 12, 1881, to Lavinia Fletcher Barrows, who died in 1888, and second to Julet Claire Thorp on May 15, 1919. He died in Janesville, Wisconsin, on August 31, 1924.[2]
Whitehead served in the Wisconsin State Senate from 1896 to 1912. He was a delegate to the 1920 Republican National Convention.