REED, THOMAS B
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Speaker, born in 1839, was a member of the Maine Legislature from 1868 to 1870, and State attorney-general from 1870 to 1873. He was then elected to the U.S. Congress as a Republican, and has served by re-election to the present time (1894.) He was speaker from 1889 to 1891 and introduced changes in parliamentary practice giving greater powers to the speaker, especially in the matter of deciding upon the presence of a quorum.
By John Franklin Jameson
