Background
Reed, Robert Rentoul was born on March 12, 1807 in Washington, Pennsylvania, United States.
Reed, Robert Rentoul was born on March 12, 1807 in Washington, Pennsylvania, United States.
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 died near Washington in 1864, and was interred in Washington Cemetery.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1863 and 1864.