John Reed Jr.

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John Reed, Jr.
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 8th, 9th, 11th, 13th district
In office March 4, 1813 – March 4, 1815 (8th) March 4, 1815 – March 4, 1817 (9th) March 4, 1821 – March 4, 1823 (9th) March 4, 1823 – March 4, 1833 (13th) March 4, 1833 – March 4, 1841 (11th)
Preceded by	Isaiah L. Green (1813) Laban Wheaton (1815) Walter Folger, Jr. (1821) William Eustis (1823) John Quincy Adams (1833)
Succeeded by	William Baylies (1815) Walter Folger, Jr. (1817) Henry W. Dwight (1823) Barker Burnell (1841)
17th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
In office January 9, 1844 – January 11, 1851
Governor	George N. Briggs
Preceded by	Henry H. Childs
Succeeded by	Henry W. Cushman
Personal details
Born	September 2, 1781 West Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Died	November 25, 1860(1860-11-25) (aged 79) West Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Resting place	Mount Prospect Cemetery Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Political party	Federalist Whig

John Reed, Jr. (September 2, 1781 – November 25, 1860) was a Representative from Massachusetts.

Reed was born in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island in 1803, and was a tutor of languages in that institution for two years, and principal of the Bridgewater, Massachusetts Academy in 1806 and 1807. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Yarmouth, Massachusetts.

Reed was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1814.

He was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses (March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1817); elected to the Seventeenth through Twenty-third Congresses; elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-fourth Congress, and elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1841). He was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Twenty-second Congress). He declined to be candidate for reelection in 1840.

He was the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1845–1851).

Reed died in West Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Interment was in Mount Prospect Cemetery, Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

Reed was the son of John Reed, Sr.

References

• United States Congress. "John Reed Jr. (id: R000121)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

External links

• John Reed Jr. at Find a Grave