Stuart F. Reed

Stuart Felix Reed ( born January 8, 1866 Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia; † July 4, 1935 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1917 and 1925 he represented the third electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stuart Reed attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1885, the Fairmont State Normal School. This was followed up in 1889 to study law at West Virginia University in Morgantown. Between 1889 and 1898 he was also active as a journalist. He served 1890-1898 as editor of the newspaper " Telegram " in Clarksburg. Politically, Reed joined the Republican Party. Between 1895 and 1899 he sat in the Senate of West Virginia; 1897 to 1901 he was postmaster in Clarksburg. He was also a 1901-1908 Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Broaddus College. In 1909, Reed was a member of an international tax conference in Louisville ( Kentucky). Between 1909 and 1917 he was managing as Secretary of State official of the Government of West Virginia. In 1915 he headed the union of all the Secretaries of State of the American states.

1916 Reed was selected in the third district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1917, the successor to the Democrats Adam Brown Littlepage, who moved into the sixth constituency. After three elections Reed was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1925 four related legislative periods. He was from 1921 to 1923 Chairman of the Committee to control expenditure of the Ministry of Justice. From 1923 to 1925 he was a member of the Committee on the Administration of the District of Columbia. During his time in Congress, there were the 18th and the 19th Amendment, discussed and adopted. It was about the prohibition of alcohol and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage.

1924 Reed waived on a bid again. In the following years he worked on literary matters. He lived until his death on July 4, 1935 in the German capital Washington and was buried in Clarksburg.