Isaac Reed (politician)

Isaac Reed (born August 22, 1809 in Waldoboro , Massachusetts , †  September 19, 1887 there ) was an American politician . Between 1852 and 1853 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Isaac Reed was born in 1809 in Waldoboro, which was then part of Massachusetts and has been part of Maine since 1820. He was being prepared to study at Bloomfield Academy , but preferred to work in shipbuilding. He also got into banking. Between 1836 and 1838 he was a town clerk in Waldoboro.

Reed was a member of the Whig Party . He served in the Maine Senate in 1839, 1840, 1850, and 1863 ; In 1842, 1843 and 1846 he was a member of the State House of Representatives . He was also a councilor in Waldoboro several times. Reed also served on the Maine Agriculture Committee and was the curator of the state mental hospital.

In 1850 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . After the death of Congressman Charles Andrews from the Democratic Party , he was then elected in the fourth constituency of Maine as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . There he took up his new mandate on June 25, 1852, to end the current legislative period of his predecessor by March 3, 1853.

In 1854 and 1855, Isaac Reed ran unsuccessfully for governor of Maine. In 1856 he was the State Treasurer . After his party dissolved in the 1850s, Reed became a member of the Democrats. In 1870 and 1871 he was again a member of the House of Representatives from Maine. Otherwise he continued to work in shipbuilding. Isaac Reed died on September 19, 1887 in his native Waldoboro.

Web links

• Isaac Reed in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Isaac Reed in the database of Find a Grave (English)