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REED, THOMAS BRACKETT (1839—1902)

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REED, See also:THOMAS BRACKETT (1839—1902) , See also:American states-See also:man, was See also:born in See also:Portland, See also:Maine, on the 18th of See also:October 1839. He graduated at See also:Bowdoin See also:College in 186o; was acting assistant-paymaster in the U.S. See also:navy from See also:April 1864 to See also:November 1865; and in 1865 was admitted to the See also:bar. He was a member of the Maine See also:House of Representatives in 1868—69 and of the See also:state See also:Senate in 187o, was See also:attorney-See also:general of the state in 1870—72, and was See also:city See also:solicitor of Portland in 1874—77. He was a Republican member of the See also:National House of Representatives from 1877 until 1899; was a member of the See also:Potter See also:Committee to investigate the disputed presidential See also:election of 1876, and conducted the examination of See also:Samuel J. See also:Tilden; and he was See also:Speaker of the House in 1889—91, and in 1895—99. He was a " strong " speaker in his See also:control of the proceedings, and he See also:developed an organized committee See also:system, making the See also:majority of the Committee on Rules consist of the speaker and chairman of the committees on ways and means and on appropriations. The " Reed Rules," See also:drawn up by him, See also:William See also:McKinley and J. G. See also:Cannon, were adopted on the 14th of See also:February 1890; they provided that every member must See also:vote, unless pecuniarily interested in a measure, that members See also:present and not voting may be counted for a See also:quorum, and that no See also:dilatory See also:motion be entertained by the speaker. His See also:parliamentary methods were bitterly attacked by his See also:political enemies, who called him " See also:Tsar Reed." He greatly hastened the passage of the McKinley See also:Bill in 189o, and of the Dingley Bill in 1897. His rules and methods of control of legislation were adopted by his successors in the speakership, and the See also:power of the Rules Committee was greatly increased under See also:Charles F. Crisp (1845—1896), Democratic speaker in 1891—1895.

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war with See also:Spain Reed See also:broke with the See also:administration on the issue of imperialism. He resigned his seat in 1899 and practised See also:law in New See also:York City. He died in See also:Washington on the 7th of See also:December 1902. Reed was a remarkable See also:personality, of whom many See also:good stories were told, and opinions varied as to his conduct in the See also:chair; but he was essentially a man of rugged honesty and power, whose See also:death was a loss to American public See also:life. Reed's Rules were published as a parliamentary See also:manual. He edited with others a Library of See also:Modern Eloquence (10 vols., 1901): See the See also:chapter on Reed in H. B. See also:Fuller's Speakers of the House (See also:Boston, 1909).

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