Read, John
lawyer, state senator, was born July 7, 1769, in Newcastle, Del.
He was appointed in 1797 agent-general of the United States under Jay's treaty, and held that office until its expiration in 1809. He was also a member of the supreme and common councils of Philadelphia and of the Pennsylvania legis,ature, and in 1816 chairman of its celebrated committee of seventeen. He succeeded Nicholas Biddle in the Pennsylvania senate in 1816. He died July 13, 1854, in Trenton, N. J.