Frederick M. Reed

Frederick M. Reed (July 28, 1924 – March 6, 2012) was a Vermont attorney and businessman who served as Vermont Attorney General.

Reed was born in Rutland, Vermont on July 28, 1924. He was raised in Manchester, where he attended the local schools and graduated from Burr and Burton Academy in 1942.

After his high school graduation, Reed was employed at a machine tool plant in Springfield. In February 1943, he enlisted in the United States Army for World War II. After completing his initial training, he served in the China Burma India Theater as a replacement soldier for Merrill's Marauders, leading supply trains of pack mules for troops that created roadblocks and other obstacles on the Burma Road to slow the retreating Imperial Japanese Army. After his overseas service, Reed returned to the United States and attended officer candidate school. The end of the war occurred before he could return to combat, and he was discharged in October 1945.

After the war, Reed enrolled at the University of Vermont, and the advanced standing he received for credits earned while in the Army enabled him to graduate in three years. He then became a student at Albany Law School, and graduated first in the class of 1950.

After attaining admission to the bar, Reed practiced law in Montpelier.

In January 1955, Robert Stafford, then serving as Attorney General, appointed Reed to be his deputy.

When Stafford ran for Lieutenant Governor of Vermont in 1956, he supported Reed to succeed him. Reed won the Republican nomination, and went on to win the general election. He was reelected in 1958, and served from January 1957 until resigning in January 1960. He was succeeded by Thomas M. Debevoise, who had served as his deputy.

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