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Senate Years of Service: 1922-1935 Party: Republican
REED, David Aiken, a Senator from Pennsylvania; born in Pittsburgh, Pa., December 21, 1880; attended
private schools; graduated from Shadyside Academy, Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1896, from Princeton
University (N.J.) in 1900, and from the University of Pittsburgh Law School in 1903; admitted to the
bar in 1903 and practiced in Pittsburgh, Pa., 1903-1917; chairman of the Pennsylvania Industrial
Accidents Commission 1912-1915; during the First World War served as major in the field artillery
1917-1919; resumed the practice of law in Pittsburgh in 1919; appointed as a Republican on August
8, 1922, and elected on November 7, 1922, to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term
ending March 3, 1923, caused by the death of William E. Crow, and on the same day was elected for
the term commencing March 4, 1923; reelected in 1928, and served from August 8, 1922, to January
3, 1935; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in
Executive Departments (Sixty-ninth Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Seventieth through
Seventy-second Congresses); resumed the practice of law in Pittsburgh, Pa.; died in Sarasota, Fla.,
February 10, 1953; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Bibliography American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography.
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