Edwin Godwin Reade

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Edwin Godwin Reade (born November 13, 1812 in Person County , North Carolina , †  October 18, 1894 in Raleigh , North Carolina) was an American politician of the Know-Nothing Party . He represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives and during the Civil War as a senator in the first Confederate Congress .

After attending school, Reade first worked in agriculture before studying law and was admitted to the bar in 1835, after which he began to practice as a lawyer in Roxboro .

In 1854 he was for the Know Nothings , which is also under the name American Party , firmierten in the Congress elected, of which he was on 4 March 1855 to the March 3, 1857; he did not apply for re-election. At the beginning of 1864, North Carolina's Governor Zebulon Baird Vance appointed him to succeed George Davis, who was appointed Justice of the Confederation in the Senate. He was then only a brief member from January 22, 1864 until the end of the session on February 17, 1864.

After the war, Reade served as president of a convention for reconstruction that met in Raleigh in 1865 . In 1868 he was appointed a judge at the North Carolina Supreme Court , which he remained until 1879. After that he was employed in the banking industry.

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