Clyde Martin Reed (1929-1931)

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Politician

Born: Champaign County, Illinois
Died: 8 November 1949, Parsons, Kansas

Inaugural address, 1929
Governor's Message, 1929
Summary of Address to National Convention of Railroad & Utilities Commissioners, 1929
Special Session Message, 1930
Message from a Retiring Governor, 1931

Clyde Reed was born in Champaign County, Illinois. A journalist and a Republican, Reed served 10 years in the U. S. Senate (1939-1949) after a single term as governor (1929-1931). The 78-year-old senator died in Parsons on November 8,1949 before the end of his second term.In 1875, when Reed was just four years old, his family left Illinois for Kansas. In 1917, after a number of years with the U. S. Post Office Department, Reed took over as manager and editor of the Parsons Sun. In 1938 he defeated the incumbent George McGill in the senatorial race and was reelected in 1944. Senator Reed died in Parsons, during his second term, on November 8, 1949.

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