John Reed, Jr.

Infobox_Congressman
name= John Reed, Jr.


state= Massachusetts
district= 8th, 9th, 11th, 13th
term= March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815 (8th)
March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1817 (9th)
March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823 (9th)
March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1841 (11th)
March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1833 (13th)
preceded= Isaiah L. Green (1813)
Laban Wheaton (1815)
Walter Folger, Jr. (1821)
William Eustis (1823)
John Quincy Adams (1833)
succeeded= William Baylies (1815)
Walter Folger, Jr. (1817)
Henry W. Dwight (1823)
Barker Burnell (1841)
date of birth= September 2, 1781
place of birth= West Bridgewater, Massachusetts
date of death= November 25, 1860
place of death= West Bridgewater, Massachusetts
spouse=
profession=
religion=
party= Federalist
Whig
order2 = 17th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
term_start2 = 1844
term_end2 = 1851
governor2 = George N. Briggs
predecessor2 = Henry H. Childs
successor2 = Henry W. Cushman|

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.

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 Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1845-1851).

Reed died in West Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

Reed was the son of John Reed, Sr..

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