37 Facts About Mead Treadwell

Louis Mead Treadwell II was born on March 21,1956 and is an American businessman and politician who served as the 11th lieutenant governor of Alaska from 2010 to 2014.

Mead Treadwell is a member of the Republican Party and was a candidate for the 2014 US Senate election in Alaska.

Mead Treadwell was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Anne and Timothy Mead Treadwell.

Mead Treadwell grew up in the Sandy Hook section of Newtown, Connecticut, where his father was the former first selectman of Newtown; the Timothy B Treadwell Memorial Park named in his late father's honor.

Mead Treadwell attended Newtown Public Schools and attended Sandy Hook Elementary school.

Mead Treadwell attended high school at Newtown High School and was then appointed by Senator Lowell Weicker as a Senate Page and the Senate Page School in Washington, DC He then studied at the Hotchkiss School, in Lakeville, Connecticut, graduating in 1974.

In 1978, Mead Treadwell graduated with his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Yale University.

Mead Treadwell later attended Harvard University and graduated with his Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1982.

In 1978, Mead Treadwell moved to Alaska to take an internship with former US Secretary of Interior Wally Hickel's campaign for governor of Alaska.

Mead Treadwell expressed optimism about the ecological rebound, cautioning that, while over half of beaches appeared normal and the quantity of commercial fish catches was exceptionally strong, the long-term effects of the spill would not be apparent for "years to come".

Mead Treadwell helped establish the Siberia Alaska Gateway Project of the Alaska State Chamber of Commerce, which worked to open the US-Russia border with the Friendship Flight.

Mead Treadwell led two expeditions to Wrangel Island in 1990 and led a team of nuclear safety experts to the Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant in Chukotka in 1993.

Mead Treadwell hosted RADEX, the Arctic nations' first circumpolar radiation release response exercise in 1994.

Hickel appointed Mead Treadwell served as Deputy Commissioner of Alaska's Department of Environmental Conservation.

Mead Treadwell served in that position from 1991 to 1994 and continued to help the cleanup of the spill.

Mead Treadwell wrote new oil spill prevention laws, and helped create the Department's Environmental Justice division.

Mead Treadwell represented the state of Alaska on US delegations in three circumpolar government groups: the eight-nation Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy, the Arctic Council, and the regional Governors' Northern Forum.

Mead Treadwell joined Governor Hickel at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992.

Mead Treadwell is a member of the Alaska Siberia Research Center board.

Mead Treadwell was elected a Fellow National of the Explorers Club in 2002 and chairs the North Pacific Alaska Chapter of the club.

Mead Treadwell has been involved in numerous successful business ventures and is a prominent member of Alaska's business community.

Mead Treadwell is on the Board of Venture Ad Astra, which creates "remote sensing and location-based technologies for National Security, Position, Timing, Navigational Infrastructure, and Commercial Markets".

Mead Treadwell played a role in the foundation of Digimarc, a digital watermarking technology provider ranked first on Forbes list of fastest growing tech companies in 2004.

Mead Treadwell has served as non-executive chairman of Immersive Media Corporation, a company notable for developing the camera used for Google's Street View and Map Quest's 360 View services.

Mead Treadwell has been called to testify before the United States Congress on several occasions.

In 2008 and 2009, Mead Treadwell testified to Congress regarding his concerns about anthropogenic global warming, but when running for Lt.

Mead Treadwell served as the Institute's first full-time Managing Director and Adjunct Professor of Business.

Mead Treadwell focused on strategic, defense, management, transportation, and telecommunications of Alaska.

Mead Treadwell is a co-author of Missile Defense, the Space Relationship, and the Twenty-First Century as well as lead author of Why the Arctic Matters, a Commonwealth North 2009 study.

In 2008 Mead Treadwell served as a delegate for Alaska in the 2008 Republican National Convention and served early on as co-chair of Mitt Romney's 2008 Presidential campaign in Alaska.

In May 2010, Mead Treadwell announced his intent to run for lieutenant governor of Alaska.

Parnell and Mead Treadwell defeated their Democratic opponents by a margin of approximately 59 to 38 percent, with the other two candidates receiving the remaining 3 percent.

Mead Treadwell was sworn in as the Lieutenant Governor of Alaska on December 6,2010.

Mead Treadwell announced on December 1,2012, at a Republican luncheon in Fairbanks, Alaska that he was forming an exploratory committee to run for the United States Senate, seeking the GOP nomination to challenge one-term incumbent Mark Begich.

Mead Treadwell filed for the US Senate primary race on June 18,2013, and officially held his campaign launch on September 12,2013.

On June 1,2018, the last day to file for candidacy Mead Treadwell announced would run for Governor of Alaska in 2018.

Mead Treadwell lost the party's nomination to state senator Mike Dunleavy.