Meech was born in
New London in the
Connecticut Colony to Elisha Meech and Faith Satterly Meech. He moved to
Hinesburg in the
Vermont Republic with his parents in 1785 and attended the common schools. Meech engaged in the
fur trade in the Northwest and in ship-timber contracts in
British Canada. In 1795 he opened a store at Charlotte Four Corners, Vermont. He moved to
Shelburne, Vermont, and owned a farm. He also raised cattle and horses, and manufactured potash. In 1806 he was an agent of the Northwestern Fur Company. Meech was a member of the
Vermont House of Representatives from 1805 until 1807. He was elected as a
Democratic-Republican candidate to the
Sixteenth United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1819, until March 3, 1821. He was a delegate to the state constitutional conventions in 1822 and 1826, and was chief judge of the
Chittenden County Court in 1822 and 1823. Meech was elected as a
Jacksonian candidate to the
Nineteenth United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1825, until March 3, 1827. He was an unsuccessful
Democratic candidate for
Governor of Vermont in 1830, 1831, 1832, and 1833. Meech served as a
presidential elector on the
Whig ticket in 1840. He then resumed agricultural pursuits. ==Personal life==