William Bradford Reed

William Bradford Reed
Harper's Weekly sketch

Pennsylvania Attorney General
In office April 2, 1838 – January 15, 1839
Preceded by	James Todd
Succeeded by	Ovid F. Johnson
Envoy to Qing Empire^[1]
In office April 18, 1857 – November 11, 1858
Preceded by	Peter Parker
Succeeded by	John Elliott Ward
Personal details
Born	(1806-06-30)June 30, 1806 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	February 18, 1876(1876-02-18) (aged 69) New York City, New York
Spouse(s)	Louisa Whelan Mary Love Ralston
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania

William Bradford Reed (June 30, 1806 – February 18, 1876) was an American attorney, diplomat, academic and journalist. He is best known for his biography of his grandfather, General Joseph Reed.

Biography and career

Reed was born the son of Joseph Reed and Maria Ellis Watmough. After graduating at the University of Pennsylvania in 1825 he went to Mexico as private secretary of Joel R. Poinsett, studied law, was appointed Pennsylvania Attorney-General (1838), and was made professor of American history at the University of Pennsylvania (1850).

In 1857, Reed became Minister to China, where he negotiated the Treaty of June, 1858, and on his return (1860) was active in Democratic Party politics and in New York journalism. For a time he was an American correspondent of The Times.

Reed published many controversial and historical pamphlets and contributed essays chiefly to the American Quarterly and the North American Review. He wrote the Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed, his grandfather (1847), and Life of Esther de Berdt, afterward Esther Reed, his grandmother (1853).

His brother was educator Henry Hope Reed.

References

↑ "U. S. Department of State, Office of the Historian".

Legal offices
Preceded by James Todd	Attorney General of Pennsylvania 1838–1839	Succeeded by Ovid F. Johnson

Pennsylvania Attorneys General

Colonial (1683–1776)	John White Samuel Hersent John White Lloyd John Moore Robert Assheton Paromlus Parmyter George Lowther Thomas Clarke Robert Quarry Henry Wilson Hamilton Joseph Growden, Jr. John Kinsey Francis Chew Allen

Council-appointed (1776–91)	Morris J. D. Sergeant Bradford

Governor-appointed (1791–1980)	Bradford Ingersoll McKean Dickerson W. Franklin J. Reed Rush Ingersoll Ellmaker T. Sergeant Elder Smith Blythe Ellmaker Markley Douglas Lewis Dallas J. Todd W. B. Reed Johnson J. Kane Read Champneys Cooper Darragh T. Franklin Campbell Hughes T. Franklin Knox Purviance Meredith B. H. Brewster F. C. Brewster Dimmick Lear Palmer Cassidy Kirkpatrick Hensel McCormick Elkin Carson M. H. Todd Bell Brown Schaffer Alter Woodruff Baldrige Woods Schnader Margiotti Bard Reno Shockley Duff Chidsey Margiotti Woodside Truscott H. Cohen McBride Alpern Stahl Alessandroni Friedman Sennett Speaker Creamer Packel R. Kane Gornish Blewitt Biester Bartle

Elected (since 1980)	Zimmerman Preate W. Cohen Corbett Fisher Pappert Corbett Ryan Kelly K. Kane

United States Ambassadors to China

Envoys to the Qing Empire 1843–1858	Caleb Cushing 1843–44 Alexander Hill Everett 1845–47 John Wesley Davis 1848–50 Humphrey Marshall 1852–54 Robert Milligan McLane 1853–54 Peter Parker 1855–57

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plentipotentiary to the Qing Empire 1858–1913	William Bradford Reed 1857–58 John Elliott Ward 1858–60 Anson Burlingame 1861–67 John Ross Browne 1868–69 Frederick F. Low 1869–73 Benjamin Avery 1874–75 George Seward 1876–80 James Burrill Angell 1880–81 John Russell Young 1882–85 Charles Harvey Denby 1885–98 Edwin H. Conger 1898–1905 William Woodville Rockhill 1905–09 William James Calhoun 1909–13

Envoy to the Republic of China 1913–1929	Paul Samuel Reinsch 1913–19 Charles Richard Crane 1920–21 Jacob Gould Schurman 1921–25 John Van Antwerp MacMurray 1925–29

Ambassador to the Republic of China 1929–1949	Nelson T. Johnson 1929–41 Clarence E. Gauss 1941–44 Patrick J. Hurley 1944–45 John Leighton Stuart 1946–49 Embassy in Taipei 1949–pres.

Chiefs of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing 1973–79	David K. E. Bruce 1973–74 George H. W. Bush 1974–75 Thomas S. Gates, Jr. 1976–77 Leonard Woodcock 1977–79

Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 1979–present	Leonard Woodcock 1979–81 Arthur W. Hummel, Jr. 1981–85 Winston Lord 1985–89 James R. Lilley 1989–91 J. Stapleton Roy 1991–95 Jim Sasser 1996–99 Joseph Prueher 1999–2001 Clark T. Randt, Jr. 2001–09 Jon Huntsman, Jr. 2009–11 Gary Locke 2011–14 Max Baucus 2014–pres.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "^{article name needed}". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 18687169 ISNI: 0000 0000 7889 7306

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