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

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. 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 New Jersey State Treasurer and a

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.Camden people
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References

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