Clarke Reed
| Clarke Thomas Reed, Sr. | |
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| State Chairman, Mississippi Republican Party | |
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In office 1966–1976 |
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| Preceded by | Wirt Yerger |
| Succeeded by | Charles W. Pickering |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1928 Pemiscot County Missouri, USA |
| Spouse(s) | Julia B. "Judy" Reed |
| Children |
Including: |
| Residence |
Greenville Washington County Mississippi, USA |
| Alma mater | University of Missouri |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Religion | Presbyterian Church |
1928
Place of birth missing
Including:
Julia Reed
Clarke T. Reed, Jr.
Clarke Thomas Reed (born 1928) is a businessman and investor from Greenville, Mississippi, who was from 1966 to 1976 the state chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party. Reed was instrumental in the nomination of U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, Jr., at the 1976 Republican National Convention held in Kansas City, Missouri.
Reed was reared in Caruthersville in Pemiscot County in the Bootheel of southeastern Missouri. He attended the University of Missouri at Columbia. Reed's father established a soybean-processing plant in Greenville, and Reed moved there in 1950 to join the family business. Reed and Company, formed in 1953, manufactured and sold grain bins of corrugated-steel. Years later, the Reed-Joseph Company was formed with an unusual mission: to make noise to keep birds away from places where they are a nuisance, such as airports, retention ponds, farmland, landfills, and golf courses.
Despite his Missouri roots, the scholars Jack Bass and Walter DeVries reported in a 1974 interview that Reed is a native of Mississippi. Perhaps they typed "Mississippi," nstead of "Missouri" since both states begin with "Miss", and they were interviewing in Mississippi.
A member of the First Presbyterian Church of Greenville, Reed has also served as the treasurer of the Los Angeles-based Presbyterian Forum. In his early years, Reed once said that the church was about his only activity outside of school or work.
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