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Reed, Thomas Brackett

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 18, 1839, in Portland, Maine. He was a member of the Maine state house of representatives in 1868-69, and of the state senate in 1870; was attorney-general of Maine in 1870-72; and was city solicitor of Portland in 1874-77. He was elected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventn, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fiftyfirst, fifty-second, fifty-third, and fiftyfourth congresses; and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. He was elected speaker of the house of representatives Dec. 2, 1889, Dec. 2, 1895, and March 15, 1897.