The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . 18,1839. He graduated atBowdoin in i860, andstudied law. In 1864 heentered the navy as act-ing assistant paymaster,remaining in that posi-tion till 1865. He thenresumed his 1868 he was a mem-ber of the lower branchof the Maine legislature,and next session was asenator. He was attor-ney-general of the state for two years and citysolicitor for Portland for four years. He waselected a member of Congress in 1876, and wasre-elected continuously for over twenty years. Inthe Fifty-first Congress he w
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . 18,1839. He graduated atBowdoin in i860, andstudied law. In 1864 heentered the navy as act-ing assistant paymaster,remaining in that posi-tion till 1865. He thenresumed his 1868 he was a mem-ber of the lower branchof the Maine legislature,and next session was asenator. He was attor-ney-general of the state for two years and citysolicitor for Portland for four years. He waselected a member of Congress in 1876, and wasre-elected continuously for over twenty years. Inthe Fifty-first Congress he was elected speaker ofthe House of Representatives, the vigor of hisadministration attracting widespread attention,and was again speaker in the Fifty-fourth. Hisrulings became widely famous as did, also, his re-visions of the rules of the House. In the Repub-lican national convention of 1896 his name wasbrought forward as a candidate for the Presi-dency. He was re-elected to Congress in ardent Republican, prominent in the coun-cils of his party, he aided the sound-money vic-. THOMAS B. REED. 566 REED-BIRD—REFLEX ACTION tory of 1896 considerably by his forcible wrote much for the leading reviews, mainlyon political subjects, and published Reeds Rules,A Manual of General Parliamentary Law {i8g6).On April 20, 1899, he announced his retirementfrom political life, and resigned his seat in Con-gress, ending his speakership with the close of the55th Congress. He is understood not to be inaccord with the McKinley administration in itsexpansion policy. REED-BIRD. See Rice-Bird, in these Suppts. REED CITY, a village of Osceola County,north-central Mich., 48 miles E. of Ludington and88 miles of Lansing, on the Flint andPere Marquette and the Grand Rapids and Indi-ana railroads. The village has two grist-mills,four sawmills, a planing-mill, a sash and blind fac-tory and a machine-shop. It has, besides, excellent?water-power and a national bank with $50,000capita
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