Background
Reade, Edwin Godwin was born on November 13, 1812 in Mount Tirzah, North Carolina, United States. Son of Robert R. and Judith (Gooch) Reade.
United States representative lawyer politician
Reade, Edwin Godwin was born on November 13, 1812 in Mount Tirzah, North Carolina, United States. Son of Robert R. and Judith (Gooch) Reade.
He later served in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War. In 1863, Governor Zebulon Vance appointed Reade to the Confederate Senate to fill the seat of George Davis, who had resigned to become the Confederacy"s Attorney General. Following the Civil War, Reade presided over the Reconstruction convention in 1865 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
In 1868, he was named as associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, a post he held until 1879.
Following his retirement from government, Reade engaged in banking in Raleigh, where he died in 1894. He is buried in Raleigh"s Oakwood Cemetery.
Reade served a single term in the 34th United States Congress as a member of the American Party (March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857), and refused to run for re-election in 1856.
Married Emily Moore; married second, Mistress.