George Reed

Who is George Reed?

George Reed was an American politician and lawyer.

Born in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, he studied at Middlebury College and studied law in Vermont; he then moved to Milwaukee, Michigan Territory in 1834. His brothers were Curtis Reed, Mayor of Menasha, Wisconsin and Harrison Reed, Governor of Florida. He moved to Waukesha County, Wisconsin, to the town of Summit, where he farmed. While in Summit, he served in the first Wisconsin Constitutional Convention of 1846 and in the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives in 1847-1848. Eventually he moved to Manitowoc, Wisconsin in 1850; while in Manitowoc, Reed served as county judge of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin and in the Wisconsin State Senate in 1865-1870. Reed was involved in the railroad business. He died in the Newhall House fire in Milwaukee in 1883.