Charles Manning Reed (April 3, 1803 – December 16, 1871) was aWhig member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania.
Charles M. Reed was born inErie, Pennsylvania. He was the grandson of the first settler of Erie,Seth Reed. He attended the public schools and was graduated fromWashington College inWashington, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar inPhiladelphia in 1824 but did not practice. He was engaged in business in Erie with his father, an owner of vessels on theGreat Lakes. He was appointed colonel of militia in 1831 and brigadier general at the expiration of his commission. He was a member of thePennsylvania House of Representatives in 1837 and 1838.
Reed was elected as a Whig to theTwenty-eighth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in1844. He resumed shipping on the Great Lakes and was also engaged in banking, mercantile pursuits, and the railroad business from 1846 to 1849. He died in 1871 in Erie, where he is interred inErie Cemetery.
Reed's son, Charles M. Reed, Jr., served asmayor of Erie from 1872 to 1873. His election being shortly after Reed's death, one newspaper described the new mayor as the son of the late General Charles M. Reed.[1][2][3][4]
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