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John Reed Jr. (2 September 1781 – 25 November 1860) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-MA 8) from 4 March 1813 to 3 March 1815 (succeeding Isaiah L. Green and preceding William Baylies), from MA-9 from 4 March 1815 to 3 March 1817 (succeeding Laban Wheaton and preceding Walter Folger Jr.) and from 4 March 1821 to 3 March 1823 (succeeding Folger and preceding Henry W. Dwight), from MA-13 from 4 March 1823 to 3 March 1833 (succeeding William Eustis), and from MA-11 from 4 March 1833 to 3 March 1841 (succeeding John Quincy Adams and preceding Barker Burnell).

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John Reed Jr. was born in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts in 1781, the son of John Reed Sr., and he became a lawyer in Yarmouth. He went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1813 to 1817 and from 1821 to 1841 and as Lieutenant Governor from 1844 to 1851, and he died in 1860.

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