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STANLEY F.
REED was born in Minerva, Kentucky, on December 31, 1884.
He was graduated from Kentucky Wesleyan University in
1902 and Yale University in 1906. After studying law at
the University of Virginia and Columbia University, Reed
took graduate courses in international law in Paris, France,
in 1909 and 1910. Reed practiced law with a firm in Maysville,
Kentucky, from 1910 to 1917, and served for four years
in the Kentucky General Assembly. He went on active military
duty in World War I, after which he returned to his law
practice in Maysville. In 1929, President Herbert Hoover
appointed Reed Counsel to the Federal Farm Board. Two
years later, he was promoted to General Counsel of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation. In 1935, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Reed Special Assistant
to the Attorney General, and later that year Roosevelt
appointed Reed Solicitor General of the United States.
On January 15, 1938, President Roosevelt nominated Reed
to the Supreme Court of the United States. The Senate
confirmed the appointment on January 25, 1938. Reed retired
from the Supreme Court on February 25, 1957, after nineteen
years of service. After retirement, he served briefly
as Chairman of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Civil
Rights Commission. He died on April 2, 1980, at the age
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