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Robert Rentoul Reed
Robert
Rentoul
Reed
was a
Whig
member of the U.S.
House of Representatives
from
Pennsylvania
.
Robert R. Reed was born in
Washington, Pennsylvania
. He
graduated
from
Washington and Jefferson College
in
Washington
in
1824
and from the
medical
department
of the
University of Pennsylvania
in 1829. He began the
practice of medicine
in Washington.
Reed was
elected
as a Whig to the
Thirty-first Congress
. He was a member of the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
in 1863 and
1864
. He
died
near Washington in 1864, and was interred in
Washington Cemetery
.