James A. Reed

James Alexander Reed ( * November 9, 1861 in Mansfield, Ohio, † September 9, 1944 in Oscoda County, Michigan ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Missouri in the U.S. Senate.

Lawyer and mayor of Kansas City

James A. Reed came on a farm in Richland County to the world and moved with his family at the age of three years to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he attended the public schools and the Coe College. He became a lawyer and settled in Kansas City, Missouri down. There he belonged from 1897 to 1898 to the City Council; then he was until 1900 the Jackson County prosecutor before he succeeded by James M. Jones took over the office of the mayor of Kansas City this year.

During this time he brought it nationwide to great prestige, when it became under his guidance, the Convention Hall rebuild within 90 days. The 1899 event have building burned down on April 4, 1900; On 4 July of the same year there was the Democratic National Convention to take place. Reed was able to advance the necessary work fast enough so that the Democratic convention could start on time in Kansas City.

Senator

In 1910, James Reed was elected to the U.S. Senate. There he remained three sessions long before retiring in 1929 at his own request from Congress. In the Senate, he has distinguished himself as an opponent of corruption, and government programs that were useless in his view. Unlike many members of his party, he was an opponent of the League of Nations. 1928 and 1932 he applied unsuccessfully to each the Democratic presidential nomination.

To the state of Missouri, he made in 1913 earned. As a member of the Senate Banking Committee, he changed his vote on the Federal Reserve Act, which thus came into force. As a result, Missouri was awarded two of the Federal Reserve Banks, which were settled in St. Louis and Kansas City, and is the only state with two branches of the Central Bank.

When Reed left the Senate, authored the writer HL Mencken an assessment, in which he both parties emphasized the use of the politician to " demagogues and charlatans ". Reed returned to Missouri and again worked as a lawyer; Moreover, he was an active member of the Civitan movement. He died at his summer home in Michigan.

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