Daniel A. Reed
Reed, 1905–1945
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromNew York
In office March 4, 1919 – February 19, 1959
Preceded by	Charles Mann Hamilton
Succeeded by	Charles Goodell
Constituency	43rd district (1919–45) 45th district (1945–53) 43rd district (1953–59)
Personal details
Born	Daniel Alden Reed (1875-09-15)September 15, 1875 Sheridan, New York, U.S.
Died	February 19, 1959(1959-02-19) (aged 83) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Party	Republican
Alma mater	Cornell University (LL.B.)

Daniel Alden Reed (September 15, 1875 – February 19, 1959) was an Americancollege football player, coach, andU.S. representative from the state ofNew York. Reed was attorney for the excise department of New York from 1903 to 1909. He served in the House of Representatives as aRepublican from 1919 until his death inWashington, D.C., on February 19, 1959.

Reed was born inSheridan, New York on September 15, 1875. He attended the public schools of Sheridan andSilver Creek, New York, and graduated fromCornell University in 1898, where he was a member of theDelta Chi fraternity and theQuill and Dagger society. Reed studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1900, and practiced first in Silver Creek, and later inDunkirk, New York. Reed was also a board of directors member for the Dunkirk Trust Company, and became a popular speech maker on business and civic topics.

He was an attorney for the New York State Excise Department from 1903 to 1909. DuringWorld War I he was one of the commissioners sent to France by the federal government to study the ongoing food shortage in preparation for a U.S. lecture tour on the importance of food conservation.

After playing football atCornell University, Reed coached at theUniversity of Cincinnati,Pennsylvania State University, and his alma mater. From 1899 to 1900 he coached at Cincinnati, and guided the Bearcats to an 8–6–1 record. He coached at Penn State in 1903, compiling a 5–3 record. From 1910 to 1911, he was the head coach at Cornell, where he led that team to a 12–5–1 record. His career record is 25–14–2.

In 1918 Reed was elected to Congress as a Republican. He was reelected 20 times, and served from March 4, 1919 until his death. During his time in the U.S. House Reed was chairman of the Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions (Sixty-eighth Congress); the Committee on Education (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses); the Committee on Ways and Means (Eighty-third Congress); and the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation (Eighty-third Congress).

Reed was a delegate to the Interparliamentary Union meeting inRome in 1948. He later served as a delegate at meetings in Sweden, Switzerland, and France.

During his years in Congress, Reed was one of the most conservative members of the New York delegation, frequently scoring zeros fromAmericans for Democratic Action, and was one of the few isolationists remaining in the New York delegation afterWorld War II.

Reed was also one of the few Republicans to consistently oppose banning thepoll tax through legislative means, although he did vote in favor of anti-lynching legislation and theCivil Rights Act of 1957.^[1]

Reed died from a major heart attack in Washington, D.C. on February 19, 1959.^[2] He was buried at Sheridan Cemetery in Sheridan, New York.

The library at theState University of New York at Fredonia was named for him.

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