Walter Newton "Bud" Read (February 8, 1918 – December 22, 2001) was an American lawyer and the second

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of the

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, from 1982 to 1989.

Biography

Read, whose nickname was "Bud," was born on February 8, 1918, in

Camden, New Jersey Camden is a city in and the county seat of Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Camden is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan area and is located directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the 2020 ...

. Read graduated from the

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in 1939 and from

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in 1941. He served as a naval officer in World War II and retired from the United States Naval Reserve in 1962 with the rank of lieutenant commander. Read was a partner in the law firm Archer, Greiner & Read. He left the firm in 1982 to accept appointment by

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as chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission. Read died on December 22, 2001, at his home in

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at the age of 83 from cancer. Read's father, William T. Read, served as

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and a

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.Camden people
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References

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