Ogden R. Reid

Ogden Rogers Reid ( * June 24, 1925 in New York City ) is an American politician. Between 1963 and 1975 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ogden Rogers Reid studied 1940-1943 at the Deerfield Academy. In 1949 he graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts. He was a Fellow at Brandeis University and Bar-Ilan University in Israel. During the Second World War he joined as a Priavte in the U.S. Army. In his resignation in 1946, he held the rank of First Lieutenant. Reid was then as captain of the United States Army Reserve. He was 1953-1959 president of the New York Herald Tribune SA as well as president and editor of the New York Herald Tribune, Inc. In 1959, he was U.S. Ambassador to Israel - a post he held until 1961. Then he had 1961-1962 chaired the New York State Commission for Human Rights. Reid was a trustee at the Hamilton Institute. He sat on the advisory board of the School of International Affairs at Columbia University. He was also vice president of the National Institute of Social Sciences and director of the Atlantic Council of the United States.

Politically, he was a member of that time the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1962 for the 88th Congress Reid was in the 26th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edwin B. Dooley on 4 January 1963. He was re-elected four times in a row. On March 22, 1972, he joined the Democratic Party. He ran in 1972 in the 24th electoral district of New York for the 93rd Congress. After a successful election, he entered on January 4, 1973, to succeed Mario Biaggi. Since he gave up for reelection in 1974, he retired after January 3, 1975 out of the Congress. In 1974 he ran until his retirement for the nomination for the office of governor of New York.

Reid was from January 1975 to May 1976 Environmental Protection Officer in New York. He lives in Purchase.