Robert R. Reed Explained

Robert Rentoul Reed
State:Pennsylvania
District:20th
Term Start:1849
Term End:1851
Predecessor:John Dickey
Successor:John Allison
Birth Date:12 March 1807
Birth Place:Washington, Pennsylvania
Death Place:Washington, Pennsylvania
Alma Mater:Washington and Jefferson College
University of Pennsylvania

Robert Rentoul Reed (March 12, 1807 – December 14, 1864) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Reed was born in Washington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in Washington in 1824 and from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1829. He began the practice of medicine in Washington.

Reed was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1863 and 1864. He died near Washington in 1864, and was interred in Washington Cemetery.

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