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REED, Thomas Brackett, a Representative from Maine; born in Portland, Cumberland County,
Maine, October 18, 1839; attended the public schools; was graduated from
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1860; studied law; acting assistant
paymaster, United States Navy, from April 19, 1864, to November 4, 1865; was
admitted to the bar in 1865 and commenced practice in Portland, Maine; member
of the State house of representatives in 1868 and 1869; served in the State
senate in 1870; attorney general of Maine 1870-1872; city solicitor of Portland
1874-1877; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the eleven
succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1877, to September 4, 1899, when
he resigned; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Forty-seventh Congress),
Committee on Rules (Fifty-first, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses);
Speaker of the House of Representatives (Fifty-first, Fifty-fourth, and
Fifty-fifth Congresses); moved to New York City and engaged in the practice of
his profession; died in Washington, D.C., on December 7, 1902; interment in
Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
BibliographyOffenberg, Richard Stanley. The Political Career of Thomas
Brackett Reed. Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1963; Robinson, William A.
Thomas B. Reed: Parliamentarian. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1930;
Tuchman, Barbara. End of a Dream. In
The Proud Tower, pp. 134-94. New York: Bantam Books, 1966.
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