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For|the chairman of Reeds|James A. Reed (businessman)Infobox Officeholder|name = James Alexander Reed|image = James A. Reed cph.3c32191.jpg|jr/sr = United States Senator|state = Missouri |term_start = March 4, 1911|term_end = March 4, 1929|predecessor = William Warner (Missouri)|William Warner |successor1 = Roscoe C. Patterson |birth_date = birth date|1861|11|9|birth_place = Mansfield, Ohio|Mansfield , Ohio |death_date = death date and age|1944|9|8|1861|11|9|death_place = Fairview, Michigan|Fairview , Michigan |party = Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic James Alexander Reed (November 9, 1861spaced ndashSeptember 8, 1944) was an American United States Democratic Party|Democratic Party politician from Missouri .
Biography
Reed was born on a farm in Richland County, Ohio . He moved with his family to Cedar Rapids, Iowa at the age of 3. He went to public schools and attended Coe College . He became a lawyer and moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1887.
Reed served as a city councilor of Kansas City from 1897 to 1898, as prosecutor of Jackson County from 1898 to 1900, and as List of Kansas City mayors|Kansas City mayor from 1900 to 1904.
As mayor, Reed rocketed to national fame after overseeing the "Kansas City Spirit" construction of Convention Hall in 90& nbsp;days in order to host the 1900 Democratic National Convention . The original Convention Hall had opened in 1899. It burned down on April 4, 1900. The Convention was scheduled to be held on July 4. Reed marshaled resources and it opened in time for the convention.
In 1910, he was elected to the United States Senate from Missouri as a Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat . He served in the Senate for three terms, from 1911 until 1929, when he decided to retire. Unlike many members of his party, he Wikisource:Speech on the League of Nations by Senator Reed|opposed the League of Nations . He sought and failed to receive the Democratic nomination for President. He served as chairman of the Committee on Weights and Measures from 1917 to 1921.
One of his biggest contributions to the State of Missouri came in 1913 when he as a member of the Senate Banking Committee changed his vote to break a deadlock to pass the Federal Reserve Act which resulted in Missouri getting 2 of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks (in Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis|St. Louis and Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City|Kansas City ). http://stlouisfed.org/publications/foregone/chapter_three.htm A Foregone Conclusion: The Founding of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis by James Neal Primm - stlouisfed.org - Retrieved January 1, 2007 Missouri is the only state with multiple headquarters of the Federal Reserve.
In 1927 he opposed the reauthorization of the Sheppard–Towner Act , which had been enacted in 1921 to reduce maternal and infant mortality and improve the health of mothers and babies, and attacked the Children's Bureau for its "excessive" federal funding and the "power and control" Sheppard-Towner gave to Grace Abbott, Bureau Chief. On the floor of the Senate, Reed ridiculed the Children's Bureau and suggested, "We would better reverse the proposition and provide for a committee of mothers to take charge of the old maids in the Children's Bureau and teach them how to acquire a husband and have babies of their own."
In 1929, as Reed was leaving the Senate, H.L. Mencken wrote a tribute to him, praising Reed for his opposition to what Mencken called "demagogues" and "charlatans" from both political parties. Reed then retired from politics and moved back to Missouri where he continued to practice law. He was also an active Civitan International|Civitan during this time.cite book |last= Leonhart |first= James Chancellor |title= The Fabulous Octogenarian |year= 1962 |publisher= Redwood House, Inc. |location= Baltimore Maryland |page= 277 He died at his summer home in Oscoda County, Michigan .
See also
Bridge Murder case
References
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Lela B. Costin, Two Sisters for Social Justice, Illinois, 1983.
Jan Hults, The Senatorial Career of James Alexander Reed . Unpublished Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kansas, History, 1987. Bibliography: leaves 317-331.
Lee Meriwether, Jim Reed: Senatorial Immortal; A Biography . Webster Groves, MO: International Mark Twain Society, 1948. 273 pp. illus., ports. 22& nbsp;cm.
James A. Reed, “The Pestilence of Fanaticism,” American Mercury , v. 5, no. 17 (May 1925) 1-7.
External links
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http://pages.prodigy.net/krtq73aa/ownman.htm Mencken's tribute to Reed
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s-starts-offsuccession box | before = James M. Jones | title = List of mayors of Kansas City|Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri | years = 1900& ndash;1904 | after = Jay H. Neff s-par|us-senU.S. Senator box | before = William Warner (Missouri)|William Warner | state=Missouri | class=1 | years=1911& ndash;1929 | after = Roscoe C. Patterson | alongside= William J. Stone , Xenophon P. Wilfley , Selden P. Spencer , George Howard Williams|George H. Williams , Harry B. Hawes s-endUSSenMO Persondata | NAME = Reed, James | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = American politician | DATE OF BIRTH = November 9, 1861 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Mansfield, Ohio|Mansfield , Ohio | DATE OF DEATH = September 8, 1944 | PLACE OF DEATH = Fairview, Michigan|Fairview , Michigan DEFAULTSORT:Reed, James Category:1861 births Category:1944 deaths Category:United States presidential candidates, 1928 Category:United States presidential candidates, 1932 Category:United States Senators from Missouri Category:Mayors of Kansas City, Missouri Category:Old Right (United States) Category:Democratic Party United States Senators Category:Missouri Democrats
