Seaborn Reese

Seaborn Reese (born November 28, 1846 in Madison , Morgan County , Georgia , †  March 1, 1907 in Sparta , Georgia) was an American politician . Between 1882 and 1887 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Seaborn Reese attended a private boys' school in Hancock County . He then studied at the University of Georgia in Athens . But he broke off this course. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1871, he began to work in Madison in his new profession. He later moved to Augusta and then to Sparta. He was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1872 to 1874 . Between 1877 and 1880 he was a district attorney for the Georgia Northern Judicial District.

Politically, Reese was a member of the Democratic Party . After the resignation of Congressman and former Vice President of the Confederate States , Alexander H. Stephens , who had been elected Governor of Georgia, Reese succeeded him to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the by-election for the eighth seat of Georgia elected. There he took up his new mandate on December 4, 1882. After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1887 . Between 1885 and 1887 he was chairman of the Post Office's Expenditure Control Committee.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Seaborn Reese was a judge in the northern judicial district of his home state between 1893 and 1900. He died on March 1, 1907 in Sparta.

Web links

• Seaborn Reese in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Seaborn Reese in the database of Find a Grave (English)