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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Maine / USThomas Brackett REED
(1839-1902)
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.
Bibliography
Offenberg, 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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