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Carrie P. Meek (born April 29, 1926) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida.
Meek was born in Tallahassee, Florida and she graduated from Florida A&M University and the University of Michigan (since graduate schools in the state of Florida were segregated at the time). She was elected to the Florida state House of Representatives in 1978 was a Democrat, serving until 1983. As a state representative, she introduced a bill criminalizing stalking. She was elected to the Florida state Senate in 1982.
She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992. Meek claimed her district was undercounted in the 1990 Census. Meek claimed the people of her district were cheated in the 2000 Presidential Election. Meek refused to attend a meeting with President George W. Bush in February 2001. She retired from the House at the end of her term in 2003. She was succeeded in office by her son, Kendrick Meek.
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