After the war, Meins served as treasurer of the Sparrow and Meins Chocolate Company.[2]
Political career
State representative
Meins was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1923 to 1929. During his tenure he was chairman of the House Committee on Taxation and was a member of the Committee on Rules.[2]
Party leader
In 1937 he was elected chairman of the Boston Republican Committee.[3]
On May 4, 1938, Meins was elected chairman of the state Republican Party.[4] During his tenure as Chairman, Republican Leverett Saltonstall was elected Governor of Massachusetts. Saltonstall chose Meins to serve as Secretary to the Governor. He was succeeded as party chairman by George W. Schryver on December 14, 1938.[5]
Saltonstall administration
Meins served as chief secretary to Governor Saltonstall from January 5, 1939, to December 11, 1940, when he accepted an appointment to the State Public Utilities Commission.[6]
Bradford administration
In 1947, Meins was appointed by Robert F. Bradford to head the newly created Metropolitan Transit Authority.[7] Although Meins had a ten-year term, on January 5, 1949, he and the four other members of the Metropolitan Transit Authority Board of Trustees resigned, as they believed incoming Governor Paul A. Dever was entitled to appoint his own board. Dever had been expected to remove the trustees, as the MTA system had run a $9 million deficit under their leadership.[8]
