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Thomas M. Reed

Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889

A Republican from the Twenty-fourth District, the sixty-four year old surveyor, civil engineer and lawyer lived in Olympia. Born in Kentucky in 1825, Reed followed the California, Fraser River and Idaho gold rushes. He was on the Board of Supervisors and County Treasurer of Eldorado county in Idaho, became a member of the Idaho legislature and was admitted to the bar in that state. In 1857 he came to Olympia where he was chief clerk of the United States surveyor-general’s office for seven years. He was a member of the territorial council in 1876 and president of it in 1877. For ten years he was auditor of the territory. He had been Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Masons for twenty-eight years, Grand High Priest of the Royal Arch Masons, and was a Knight Templar and thirty-third degree Mason-Scottish Rite. Reed served on the following committees: State Institutions and Public Buildings, chairman; Revision, Adjustment and Enrollment; State, County and Municipal Indebtedness; credentials; rules for Convention.

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