Isaac Reed (Maine)

Isaac Reed (Maine)

Isaac Reed was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Waldoboro on August 22, 1809.He prepared for college at Bloomfield Academy, but by preference became a merchant-ship builder. He also engaged in banking.

Reed was town clerk of Waldoboro 1836-1838. He served in the Maine State Senate. He was elected a member of the Maine House of Representatives. He was appointed as a member of the State board of agriculture and a trustee of the Maine Insane Hospital. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress, but subsequently was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles Andrews and served from June 25, 1852 to March 3, 1853. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Maine in 1854 and 1855.

Reed resumed shipbuilding. He served as Maine State Treasurer in 1856. Upon the dissolution of the Whig Party, he became a Democrat. Reed was again elected a member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1870 and 1871, and died in Waldoboro on September 19, 1887. His interment was in Central Cemetery.

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