Eugene E. Reed Explained

Eugene Elliott Reed
State:New Hampshire
District:1st
Term Start:March 4, 1913
Term End:March 3, 1915
Preceded:Cyrus A. Sulloway
Succeeded:Cyrus A. Sulloway
Order2:32nd
Office2:Mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire
Term Start2:1903
Term End2:1911
Preceded2:William C. Clarke
Succeeded2:Edward Clarke Smith
Office3:Member of the
Manchester Board of Aldermen
Term Start3:1899
Term End3:1903
Birth Date:April 23, 1866
Birth Place:Manchester, New Hampshire
Party:Democratic

Eugene Elliott Reed (April 23, 1866 – December 15, 1940) was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.

Biography

Born in Manchester, Reed attended the public schools and received instruction from private tutors. He studied law, then engaged in the construction contracting business, serving as director and officer of numerous New England and New York corporations. He was an alderman of Manchester, 1899–1903, and served as mayor, 1903–1911, having been elected in 1902, 1904, 1906, and 1908.

Reed served as Democratic National and State committeeman for twelve years and was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1908, 1912, 1916, and 1924. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress, but was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1915). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

He was appointed by President Wilson to the Philippine Commission and served as secretary of commerce and police in 1916. He negotiated the purchase and was first president under the Philippine ownership of Manila railroads. He returned to the United States in 1918.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator in 1918, then engaged in the general export business in New York 1919–1922. He served as vice president of United Life & Accident Insurance Co., Concord, New Hampshire, from 1922 to 1931. He was National Recovery Administration director for New Hampshire in 1933 and 1934 and State Director of the National Emergency Council and Federal Housing Agency, 1934–1939. He was a member of the New Hampshire Emergency Flood Relief and Rehabilitation Committee in 1936 and served on the New Hampshire Disaster Relief Committee in 1938. He was the regional director for New England, Office of Government Reports, in 1939 and 1940.

He died in Manchester, December 15, 1940, and was interred in Pine Grove Cemetery.