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About Frank Meakes
- Frank Meakes (February 20, 1917 – July 8, 1989) was a political figure in Saskatchewan.
- He represented Touchwood from 1956 to 1964 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) member and from 1967 to 1975 as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. He was born in Punnichy, Saskatchewan, the son of James Meakes and Elsie Butcher, both natives of England.
- He was educated near Lestock and by correspondence.
- Meakes worked on the family farm until 1940, when he settled on his own farm near Lestock.
- During 1948, he worked at the International Nickel Plant in Sudbury but he returned to farming the following year.
- Meakes was president of the Lestock Co-operative Association, served on the council for the rural municipality of Emerald, was a director for the Roundplain Telephone Company and served on the local school board.
- He was defeated by George Trapp when he ran for reelection to the provincial assembly in 1964.
- Meakes served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Cooperation and Co-operative Development.
- After he retired from politics in 1975, Meakes served as mayor of Lestock.
- He also was a director for the Saskatchewan Housing Corporation and served on the executive for the Parkland Regional Library Board.Meakes was married twice: first to Mary Luthi in 1943 and then to Margaret (Lazar) Horn in 1977 after the death of his first wife.
- He died in Lestock at the age of 72.
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