Thomas Buck Reed

Thomas Buck Reed

Thomas Buck Reed (born May 7, 1787 in Lexington , Kentucky , †  November 26, 1829 in Lexington, Kentucky) was an American politician ( Democratic Republican Party ) who represented the state of Mississippi in the US Senate .

Originally from Kentucky, Thomas Reed attended public schools in his home country and then continued his education at the College of New Jersey , later Princeton University . He studied law , was inducted into the bar, and began practicing in his hometown of Lexington in 1808. The following year he moved to Natchez in the Mississippi Territory , where he was hired in 1811 as a city clerk ( clerk ). In 1813 he ran for the election of the Territory Delegate in the US House of Representatives , but was unsuccessful. After the founding of the state of Mississippi, he served from 1821 to 1826 as its Attorney General .

In 1825, Reed was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, but did not take up the mandate. In the following year he decided the by-election for Mississippi's first seat in the US Senate, which had been occupied provisionally by Powhatan Ellis after the resignation of David Holmes . He remained in Congress from January 28, 1826 to March 3, 1827 , but missed direct re-election. In the following year he ran for the second seat of his state and won the election to succeed the no longer candidate Thomas Hill Williams . He returned to the Senate on March 4, 1829, but died in November of the same year.

Web links

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

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