John Reed, Jr.
U.S. Congressperson
1781 – 1860
Who was John Reed, Jr.?
John Reed, Jr. was a Representative from Massachusetts.
Reed was born in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island in 1803, and was a tutor of languages in that institution for two years, and principal of the Bridgewater, Massachusetts Academy in 1806 and 1807. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Yarmouth, Massachusetts.
He was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses; elected to the Seventeenth through Twenty-third Congresses; elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-fourth Congress, and elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses. He was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business. He declined to be candidate for reelection in 1840.
He was the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts.
Reed died in West Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Interment was in Mount Prospect Cemetery, Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Reed was the son of John Reed, Sr.
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- Born
- Sep 2, 1781
West Bridgewater - Education
- Brown University
- Died
- Nov 25, 1860
West Bridgewater
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on July 23, 2013
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