Charles Chester Reid (June 15, 1868 – May 20, 1922) was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a

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from

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from 1901 to 1911.

Early life and career

Born in

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, Reid attended the public schools and the

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in 1883–1885. He was graduated from the law department of

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, in 1887. He was

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the same year and commenced practice in

Morrilton, Arkansas Morrilton is a city in Conway County, Arkansas, Conway County, Arkansas, United States, less than northwest of Little Rock, Arkansas, Little Rock. The city is the county seat of Conway County. The population was 6,992 at the 2020 United States ce ...

. He served as prosecuting attorney of Conway County from 1894 to 1898. In 1898 he voluntarily retired from office and resumed the practice of law.

Congress

Reid was elected as a

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to the Fifty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1911). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress.

Later career and death

He again engaged in the practice of his profession in

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, where he died on May 20, 1922. He was interred in Oakland Cemetery.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Reid, Charles Chester 1868 births 1922 deaths Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas Vanderbilt University Law School alumni University of Arkansas alumni People from Clarksville, Arkansas Politicians from Little Rock, Arkansas 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives