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Reed, Thomas

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Reed, Thomas (Brackett) (1839–1902)

US politician who served in the House of Representatives 1876–99. A fierce debater, he used his prosecutorial skills to uncover Democratic fraud in the 1876 presidential elections in Louisiana. In the reconstruction period, he supported the passage of laws to guarantee blacks' voting rights. Fiscally conservative, he opposed measures to increase currency through greenbacks or free silver. A member of the Committee on Rules, he supported measures to limit filibustering by the Democrats, thereby securing passage of a protectionist tariff bill in 1883.

He was born in Portland, Maine. After working his way through Bowdoin College, he went to California where he became a lawyer in 1863, returning to Maine to practise law and serve in the state legislature. He was attorney general 1870–73.



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