John Reed, Jr.

John Reed, Jr. ( born September 2, 1781 West Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, † November 25, 1860 ) was an American politician. Between 1813 and 1841 he represented several times the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Reed was the son of the Congressman John Reed Sr. ( 1751-1831 ). He studied until 1803 at Brown University in Providence (Rhode Iceland ). He then taught for two years, foreign languages ​​at the university. In the years 1806 and 1807, he taught at the Bridgewater Academy. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in Yarmouth in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party.

In the congressional elections of 1812, Reed was in the eighth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Isaiah L. Green on March 4, 1813. After a re-election in the ninth district of his state, he could firstly undertake two terms in Congress until March 3, 1817. These were minted until 1815 by the events of the British - American War. In the 1820s he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party. Mid-1830s he joined the Whig Party was founded at that time.

In the elections of 1820 Reed was re-elected in the ninth district of his state in Congress, where he replaced Walter Folger on March 4, 1821. After nine elections he could until March 3, 1841 ten other legislative periods spent in the House of Representatives. Between 1823 and 1833 he represented there on the 13th and then the eleventh district of Massachusetts. From 1831 to 1833 he was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

In 1840, John Reed gave up another Congress candidate. From 1845 to 1851 he was vice- governor of Massachusetts. After that, he is no longer politically have appeared. He died on 25 November 1860 in his native West Bridgewater.