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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriJames Alexander REED
(1861-1944)
Senate Years of Service:
1911-1929Party: DemocratREED, James Alexander, a
Senator from Missouri; born on a farm near Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio, November 9, 1861; moved with his parents to Cedar
Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, in 1864; attended the public schools and
Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; studied law; admitted to the bar
in 1885 and commenced practice in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; moved to
Kansas City, Mo., in 1887 and continued the practice of law;
counselor of Kansas City 1897-1898; prosecuting attorney of Jackson
County 1898-1900, when he resigned; mayor of Kansas City 1900-1904;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1910;
reelected in 1916 and 1922 and served from March 4, 1911, to March
3, 1929; was not a candidate for renomination in 1928; chairman,
Committee on Manufactures (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth
Congresses), Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-fifth
Congress), Committee on Standards, Weights and Measures
(Sixty-sixth Congress); resumed the practice of his profession in
Kansas City, Mo.; died at his summer home near Fairview, Oscoda
County, Mich., September 8, 1944; interment in Mount Washington
Cemetery, near Kansas City, Mo.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Meriwether, Lee. Jim Reed, “Senatorial
Immortal”: A Biography. Webster Groves, Mo.:
International Mark Twain Society, 1948; Mitchell, Franklin D.
“The Re-Election of Irreconcilable James A. Reed.”
Missouri Historical Review 60 (July 1966): 416-35.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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