Edwin Godwin Reade

Edwin Reade
Confederate States Senator from North Carolina
In office January 22, 1864 – February 18, 1864
Preceded by	George Davis
Succeeded by	William Graham
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 5th district
In office March 4, 1855 – March 4, 1857
Preceded by	James Clay
Succeeded by	John Gilmer
Personal details
Born	Edwin Godwin Reade (1812-11-13)November 13, 1812 Person County, North Carolina
Died	October 18, 1894(1894-10-18) (aged 81) Raleigh, North Carolina
Political party	American

Edwin Godwin Reade (November 13, 1812 – October 18, 1894) was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1855 and 1857. He later served in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War.

Biography

Edwin Reade was born in Person County, North Carolina in 1812; a lawyer, he was admitted to the bar in 1835 and practiced in Roxboro.

Reade served a single term in the 34th United States Congress as a member of the American Party (March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857), and refused to run for re-election in 1856. In 1863, Governor Zebulon Vance appointed Reade to the Confederate Senate to fill the seat of George Davis, who had resigned to become the Confederacy's Attorney General.

Following the Civil War, Reade presided over the Reconstruction convention in 1865 in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1868, he was named as associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, a post he held until 1879. Following his retirement from government, Reade engaged in banking in Raleigh, where he died in 1894. He is buried in Raleigh's Oakwood Cemetery.

External links

• "Edwin Godwin Reade". Find a Grave. Retrieved April 11, 2009.

• United States Congress. "Edwin Godwin Reade (id: R000095)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved April 11, 2009.