{{short description|American politician}} {{for|the British-Indian actor|Milton Reid}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder |name=Milton Reed |image= Milton Reed (1848–1932) c. 1908.png |caption= |order= |office= Mayor of<br>Fall River, Massachusetts |term_start= 1884 |term_end= 1884 |predecessor=Henry K. Braley |successor= John W. Cummings |office2= Member of the<br>Massachusetts State Senate<br>for the Second Bristol District |term_start2= 1881 |term_end2= 1881 |birth_date= {{Birth date|1848|10|01}} |birth_place=Haverhill, Massachusetts |death_date= {{Death date and age|1932|09|18|1848|10|01}} |death_place= Fall River, Massachusetts |party= |alma_mater=Harvard University, 1868; Harvard Law School |profession=Attorney, journalist, newspaper publisher |spouse= |children= |footnotes= }}
'''Milton Reed''' (October 1, 1848 – September 18, 1932) was an American journalist, attorney and politician who served as Mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts.
==Biography== Milton Reed was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts on October 1, 1848.<ref name="Hurdy1883p390B">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028817653/page/n759/mode/1up |last=Hurd |first=Duane Hamilton| title = History of Bristol County, Massachusetts: with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Part 1 | page = 390B | publisher = J. Lewis & CO. | location = Philadelphia, PA | year = 1883 |access-date=2023-04-21 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref name=Secretary>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u_gkAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA118 |title=Harvard College Class of 1868 Fortieth Anniversary Secretary's Report No. 8 |publisher=E. O. Cockayne |place=Boston |pages=118–121 |date=1908 |access-date=2023-04-21 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He graduated from Harvard University in 1868, and worked as a journalist, editing the ''Fall River Daily Evening News''.<ref name="Hurdy1883p390B"/><ref name=Secretary/><ref name="HartCournt1932p4">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123268985/milton-reed/ |title=Milton Reed |newspaper=Hartford Courant |agency=AP |place=Fall River, Massachusetts |page=4 |date=1932-09-19 |publication-date=1932-09-20 |access-date=2023-04-21 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He then studied law at Harvard Law School, and in the office of Edmund H. Bennett.<ref name="Hurdy1883p390B"/><ref name="BandBCommp217">{{Citation |last=Davis|first=William Thomas| title = Bench and bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Volume II | page = 217 | publisher =The Boston History Company | year = 1895}}</ref>
In 1881, he served as a member of the Massachusetts State Senate for the Second Bristol District.<ref name="Hurdy1883p390B"/> He was mayor of Fall River in 1884.<ref name=Secretary/>
He died in Fall River on September 18, 1932.<ref name="HartCournt1932p4"/><ref name="ReedReviewp12">{{Citation |last=Mercer|first=Dede D.| title = The Reed Review, Issue No. II | page = 12 | year = 1993}}</ref>
==See also== * 102nd Massachusetts General Court (1881)
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