OVERVIEW:

FULL NAME:
Stanley Forman Reed

BORN:
December 31, 1884;
Minerva, Kentucky

DIED:
April 2, 1980 (age 95);
Huntington, New York

EDUCATION:
Kentucky Wesleyan College (BA, 1902),
Yale College (BA, 1906),
Columbia Law School,
University of Virginia School of Law,
Read law (1910)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democrat

HIGHLIGHTS:
1917-1918
U.S. Army First Lieutenant, Intelligence Division
1910-1929:
Practiced Law in Maysville and Ashland, Kentucky
1912-1916:
Member, Kentucky General Assembly
1929-1932
General Counsel, Federal Farm Board
1932-1935
General Counsel, Reconstruction Finance Corporation
1935-1938:
U.S. Solicitor General
1938-1957:
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

PORTRAIT:

Artist: Charles Hopkinson (U.S. Supreme Court Collection)

RESOURCES:

2/18/1938: Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed (center) swears in Joseph P. Kennedy (left) as U.S. Envoy to Great Britain as President Franklin D. Roosevelt (right) watches (Library of Congress).

Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Supreme Court Historical Society
Oyez
Wikipedia

MEDIA COVERAGE:

1/18/ 1938: U.S. Solicitor General Stanley F. Reed answers questions from the media in his office at the Department of Justice after his nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court was announced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Library of Congress)

NOMINATION (1/16/1938):
New York Times

OBITUARIES:
Washington Post
New York Times