George Reed (Wisconsin politician)

George B. Reed (November 9, 1807 – January 10, 1883) was an American politician and lawyer, prominent in the early history of Wisconsin.

Born in Middlesex County, Massachusetts to parents, Rhoda Finney Reed (1781-1874) and Seth Reed (1781-1848), he studied at Middlebury College and studied law in Vermont. He moved to Milwaukee, Michigan Territory in 1834, possibly from Chicago. He is believed to have been the first attorney to move to the Wisconsin Territory, and was for many years an advisor to Solomon Juneau.

He was one of eight Reed children. His brother Curtis Reed would become Mayor of Menasha, Wisconsin, and their brother Harrison Reed, Governor of Florida. His sister, Mary Augusta Reed Smith (1811-1866) married Judge Abram Daniel Smith (1811-1865). His sister, Martha Reed Mitchell (1817-1902) married railroad tycoon, Alexander Mitchell (1817-1887). His sister Julia Ann (Juliana) Reed Noyes married Dr. Thomas Noyes of Milwaukee. His brother Herbert Reed, a Milwaukee grocer, married Phebe Adeline Brisbane. He also had a brother Orson Reed of Summit, Wisconsin.

George Reed moved to Waukesha County, Wisconsin, to the town of Summit, where he farmed. While in Summit, he served in the first Wisconsin Constitutional Convention of 1846 and in the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives in 1847-1848. Eventually he moved to Manitowoc, Wisconsin in 1850; while in Manitowoc, Reed served as a two-year term as county judge of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, and was elected as the first village president of Manitowoc upon its incorporation as a village.

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