Frederick M. Reed

Frederick M. Reed (born July 28, 1924 in Rutland , Vermont ; † March 6, 2012 in Berlin , Vermont) was an American lawyer and politician who was Vermont Attorney General from 1957 to 1960 .

Life

Frederick M. Reed was born in Rutland, Vermont to Reginald H. and Lucy Pratt Reed. The family moved to Manchester , where he attended public schools. After graduating from school in 1942, he worked in a machine tool plant in Springfield .

In February 1943, Reed joined the US Army . After his training he signed up for a mission in Burma , where his unit set up roadblocks to slow the retreat of Japanese troops. His unit was later relocated to the Republic of China . After a few months in China, during which Reed served as deputy regimental officer, he returned to the United States and attended an officers' school towards the end of the war. He was discharged from the army in October 1945.

In January 1946, Reed began studying at the University of Vermont , where he met his wife Jacquelyn Laurel Hansen (1926-2009), whom he married in 1946, and three years later Reed was able to attend the Albany Law School in New York City . There he graduated in June 1950.

Reed moved to Montpelier and joined a private law firm. As a member of the Republican Party of Vermont , he was appointed Deputy Attorney General to Robert Stafford , the incumbent Vermont Attorney General, in January 1955. When Stafford ran for lieutenant governor of Vermont the following year, Reed successfully ran for the office of Vermont Attorney General. He was re-elected in 1958 for a further two years.

Head of Legal, Rock of Ages Corp. in Barre he became in 1960 and he was additionally in 1965 Vice President for Sales and Marketing. He left the company in 1968 when he was appointed secretary for civil and military affairs by Governor Deane C. Davis . In Davis' second term, he assumed the position of governor's counsel. At the same time he ran a private law firm, first in Essex and later in Williston .

He headed the legal department for Blodgett Oven Co. and was one of the managing directors, as well as for another company, Pitman Co. , until his retirement in 1992. He and his wife then bought a house on the island of Vinalhaven in Maine .

Frederick M. Reed had three daughters. He died on March 6, 2012 in Berlin, Vermont, at the Central Vermont Medical Center. His grave is in the Green Mountain Cemetery in Montpelier.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rutland Harald, Frederick M. Reed ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on January 31, 2015  
2. ↑ Office of the Attorney General of Vermont ( Memento of the original dated February 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on January 31, 2015  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Obituary for Frederick M. Reed in The Barre Montpelier Times Argus , accessed January 31, 2015