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(1884–1980), American jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, born in Mason Co., Ky., on Dec. 31, 1884. A graduate of Kentucky Wesleyan College and Yale University, he studied law at the University of Virginia and Columbia University and was also a student at the University of Paris. Reed was admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1910 and was a member of the Kentucky legislature from 1912 to 1916. He served as general counsel to the Federal Farm Board from 1929 to 1932 and to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation from 1932 to 1935. Between 1935 and 1938 he was solicitor general of the U.S. He was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938. Reed, who retired in 1957, died on April 3, 1980.
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