Career
After the war, he ran a dairy farm in Cranbourne, Victoria before being elected to the Electoral district of Dandenong at the 1958 Victorian state election. Reid served as the member for Dandenong for 11 years before resigning his seat to contest the newly created federal Division of Holt, which covered much of the same area as Dandenong, at the 1969 Federal Election. Len Reid was avidly connected with people who were marginalised in society and actively concentrated on the poor in India and Bangladesh.
His publications included Crusade against Death.
He played an important roll with the charity "Foreign Those Who Have Less". She was the niece of Hugh Comyn and William Leslie Comyn.
