Charles C. Reid Explained

Charles C. Reid
State:Arkansas
District:5th
Term Start:March 4, 1901
Term End:March 3, 1911
Predecessor:William L. Terry
Successor:John Sebastian Little
Birth Date:15 June 1868
Birth Place:Clarksville, Arkansas, U.S.
Death Place:Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
Nationality:American
Birth Name:Charles Chester Reid
Party:Democrat
Resting Place:Oakland Cemetery, Arkansas
Alma Mater:University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Vanderbilt University
Occupation:Attorney

Charles Chester Reid (June 15, 1868 – May 20, 1922) was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Arkansas from 1901 to 1911.

Early life and career

Born in Clarksville, Arkansas, Reid attended the public schools and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1883–1885.He was graduated from the law department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1887.

He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Morrilton, Arkansas.He served as prosecuting attorney of Conway County from 1894 to 1898. In 1898 he voluntarily retired from office and resumed the practice of law.

Congress

Reid was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1911).[1] He was not a candidate for renomination in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress.

Later career and death

He again engaged in the practice of his profession in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he died on May 20, 1922.

He was interred in Oakland Cemetery.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903 . GovInfo.gov . U.S. Government Printing Office . 2 July 2023 . 5 . 9 November 1903.