| Thomas Read | |
| District2: | Oceana County |
| Term Start2: | January 1, 1915 |
| Term End2: | December 31, 1920 |
| Successor2: | Daniel Rankin |
| Office: | 44th Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives |
| State House2: | Michigan |
| Term Start: | January 1, 1919 |
| Term End: | December 31, 1920 |
| Governor: | Albert E. Sleeper |
| Predecessor: | Wayne R. Rice |
| Successor: | Fred L. Warner |
| Order3: | 36th & 40th |
| Office3: | Lieutenant Governor of Michigan |
| Term Start4: | January 1, 1921 |
| Term End4: | January 1, 1925 |
| Governor4: | Alex J. Groesbeck |
| Predecessor4: | Luren Dickinson |
| Successor4: | George W. Welsh |
| Term Start3: | January 1, 1935 |
| Term End3: | January 1, 1937 |
| Governor3: | Frank D. Fitzgerald |
| Predecessor3: | Allen E. Stebbins |
| Successor3: | Leo J. Nowicki |
| Order5: | 41st |
| Office5: | Michigan Attorney General |
| Term Start5: | January 1, 1939 |
| Term End5: | January 1, 1941 |
| Governor5: | Frank Fitzgerald Luren Dickinson |
| Predecessor5: | Raymond Wesley Starr |
| Successor5: | Herbert J. Rushton |
| State Senate6: | Michigan |
| District6: | 26th |
| Term Start6: | January 1, 1927 |
| Term End6: | December 31, 1928 |
| Predecessor6: | Orville E. Atwood |
| Successor6: | Orville E. Atwood |
| Birth Date: | 28 May 1881 |
| Birth Place: | Rochester, New York |
| Death Place: | Kalamazoo, Michigan |
| Party: | Republican |
| Spouse: | Ethel |
| Residence: | Shelby, Oceana County, Michigan |
| Profession: | Attorney |
Thomas Read (May 28, 1881 – April 7, 1962) was a Republican politician from Michigan who served in the Michigan House of Representatives including as its Speaker during the 50th Legislature, as the lieutenant governor of Michigan under Alex J. Groesbeck, as a member of the Michigan State Senate, and as Michigan Attorney General.[1]
Born in Rochester, New York, of English and Scottish ancestry to Thomas and Jane Read on May 28, 1881, Read was either a candidate for or served in nearly all state-level offices in Michigan (he was never a candidate for or elected Secretary of State). He was a candidate in the primary for Governor of Michigan in 1924, losing to Alex J. Groesbeck, and 1940, losing to Luren Dickinson.
Read was a presidential elector for Michigan in 1928, casting a ballot for Herbert Hoover, and a delegate to the 1940 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia which nominated Wendell Willkie (who eventually lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan was a candidate for the nomination at that convention.
Read died after surgery at a hospital in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1962.[2] The elementary school in his hometown of Shelby is named for Read.[3]