Frank R. Reid

Frank R. Reid ( born April 18, 1879 in Aurora, Illinois, † January 25, 1945 ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1935 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank Reid attended the common schools and studied at the University of Chicago after that. After a subsequent law degree at the Chicago College of Law and was admitted as an attorney of his 1901 he began to work in Aurora in this profession. Between 1904 and 1908 he worked as a prosecutor. In the years 1908-1910 he was Deputy Attorney General for Chicago. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1911 and 1912 Reid sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Illinois; 1914 to 1916, he served as district chairman of the Republicans in Kane County. After that, he was in 1916 and 1917 Secretary of the Association of Cities of Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1922, Reid was in the eleventh electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Ira Clifton Copley on March 4, 1923. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1935 six legislative periods. From 1925 to 1931 he was chairman of the Committee on flood protection. Since 1933, the first of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which Reid's party faced a rather negative. In 1934 he gave up another candidacy.

In 1925 he took over the defense of General Billy Mitchell in the court-martial process. In the 1955 film appeared Damn silenced, based on this process, Reid is played by Ralph Bellamy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Frank Reid practiced law in Aurora and Chicago. He died on January 25, 1945 in Aurora.