Thomas Read (politician)

Thomas Read

Thomas Read (born May 28, 1881 in Rochester , New York , † 1962 ) was an American politician . Between 1921 and 1925 and again from 1935 to 1937 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Michigan .

Career

Thomas Read graduated from the Ferris Institute . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Michigan and his admission as a lawyer in 1913, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1915 and 1920 he sat as a member of the House of Representatives from Michigan , whose president he was from 1919 as the successor to Wayne R. Rice . In 1920 he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Michigan at the side of Alex Groesbeck . He held this office between 1921 and 1925. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate .

In 1930, 1936, 1938 and 1942 he failed in his party's primary elections when attempting to return to this post. In 1924 and 1940 he was defeated in the gubernatorial elections. From 1927 to 1928 Read was a member of the Michigan Senate. In the 1928 presidential election , he was one of the Republican electors who officially elected Herbert Hoover president . From 1935 to 1937 Read was once again lieutenant governor of his state under Governor Frank Fitzgerald . Between 1939 and 1940 he held the office of Attorney General of Michigan as the successor to Raymond Wesley Starr . In 1950 he ran unsuccessfully in the primary elections for the United States House of Representatives .

Web links

• Thomas Read at The Political Graveyard
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