Clyde M. Reed

Clyde M. Reed
24th Governor of Kansas
In office January 14, 1929 – January 12, 1931
Lieutenant	Jacob W. Graybill
Preceded by	Benjamin S. Paulen
Succeeded by	Harry H. Woodring
Personal details
Born	October 19, 1871 Champaign County, Illinois
Died	November 8, 1949 (aged 78) Parsons, Kansas
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Minnie E. Hart
Profession	teacher, postman, newspaper editor
Religion	Methodist

Clyde Martin Reed (October 19, 1871 – November 8, 1949) was an American politician from Kansas who served as both the 24th Governor of Kansas and U.S. Senator from that state.

Born in Champaign County, Illinois, Reed moved to Kansas with his family when he was four years old. After completing a basic education, he taught school for a single year then began work as a federal employee, a position he would serve in different capacities for the next thirty years. He first worked for the railroad mail carrier service, rising to be superintendent of several areas throughout the Midwest and then to the Railway Adjustment Division, Post Office Department superintendent. He resigned to run his Parsons, Kansas newspaper, the Parsons Sun. He then became Governor Henry J. Allen's personal secretary.

Reed was elected Governor of Kansas in 1929, after becoming known as a candidate for being extremely progressive. Shortly after he moved into the governor's mansion, the Great Depression began. Reed called an extra session of the state legislature to combat the troubles faced by Kansans dealing with the depression. The governor decided not to run for re-election, and returned to newspaper editing. When the anti-Semitic preacher Gerald B. Winrod ran for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in 1938 and seemed likely to win it, Reed was recruited by the mainstream political establishment as a popular figure who could prevent Winrod's election. Reed won the nomination and the election, and was re-elected in 1944. While in the Senate, his fellow Kansas Senator was also a former governor, Arthur Capper. Reed attempted to obtain the 1942 Republican nomination for governor of Kansas but failed.

Reed died in 1949 while on a visit home from the Senate. The papers from his Senate years are said^[who?] to have been destroyed. He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Parsons.

Sources

• Governor's Mansion Bio
• Clyde M. Reed at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

External links

• Find-A-Grave profile for Clyde M. Reed

United States Senate
Preceded by George McGill	United States Senator (Class 3) from Kansas 1939–1949	Succeeded by Harry Darby

Persondata
Name	Reed, Clyde M.
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	October 19, 1871
Place of birth	Champaign County, Illinois
Date of death	November 8, 1949
Place of death	Parsons, Kansas