Edwin Godwin Reade

Edwin Godwin Reade (November 13, 1812 – October 18, 1894) was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1855 and 1857. He later served in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War.

Biography

Edwin Reade was born in Person County, North Carolina in 1812; a lawyer, he was admitted to the bar in 1835 and practiced in Roxboro.

Reade served a single term in the 34th United States Congress as a member of the American Party (March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857), and refused to run for re-election in 1856. In 1863, Governor Zebulon Vance appointed Reade to the Confederate Senate to fill the seat of George Davis, who had resigned to become the Confederacy's Attorney General.

Following the Civil War, Reade presided over the Reconstruction convention in 1865 in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1868, he was named as associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, a post he held until 1879. Following his retirement from government, Reade engaged in banking in Raleigh, where he died in 1894. He is buried in Raleigh's Oakwood Cemetery.

External links

• Edwin Godwin Reade at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by John Kerr	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 5th congressional district 1855–1857	Succeeded by John Gilmer
Confederate States Senate
Preceded by George Davis	Confederate States Senator (Class 1) from North Carolina 1864 Served alongside: William Dortch	Succeeded by William Graham