James Byron Reed was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Arkansas

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Born near Lonoke, Arkansas

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, Reed attended the rural schools of his county and Hendrix College.
He graduated from the law department of the University of Arkansas

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, Fayetteville, Arkansas

Fayetteville, Arkansas

Fayetteville is the county seat of Washington County, and the third largest city in Arkansas. The city is centrally located within the county and is home to the University of Arkansas. Fayetteville is also deep in the Boston Mountains, a subset of The Ozarks...

, 1906.
He was admitted to the bar

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 in 1906.
He was a lawyer in private practice.
He served as member of the Arkansas House of Representatives

Arkansas House of Representatives

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, 1907.
He served as prosecuting attorney of the seventeenth judicial district of Arkansas from 1912 to 1916.

Reed was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Sixty-eighth

68th United States Congress

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 Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Lewis E. Sawyer

Lewis E. Sawyer

Lewis Ernest Sawyer was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.Born in Shelby County, Alabama, Sawyer moved with his parents to Lee County, Mississippi....

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He was reelected to the Sixty-ninth

69th United States Congress

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 and Seventieth

70th United States Congress

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 Congresses (October 6, 1923- March 3, 1929).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1928.
He died on April 27, 1935, in Little Rock, Arkansas

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He was interred in Lonoke Cemetery, Lonoke, Arkansas

Lonoke, Arkansas

Lonoke is the second most populous city in Lonoke County, Arkansas, United States, and serves as its county seat. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 4,553...

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