1. Ogden Rogers Reid was an American politician and diplomat.
17 Facts About Ogden Reid
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Ogden Reid was the US Ambassador to Israel and a six-term United States Representative from Westchester County, New York, serving from 1963 to 1975.
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Ogden Reid was the grandson of diplomat and 1892 Republican vice presidential candidate Whitelaw Reid.
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Ogden Reid's family owned the New York Herald Tribune and before that the New York Tribune.
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Ogden Reid graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1943 and Yale University, where he was a member of Book and Snake, in 1949.
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Ogden Reid later served as a captain in the United States Army Reserve.
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From 1955 until 1958, Ogden Reid served as publisher, president, and editor of the family paper, the New York Herald Tribune.
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From 1956 until 1959, Ogden Reid was a director of the Panama Canal Company.
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From 1959 to 1961, Ogden Reid was the United States Ambassador to Israel.
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In 1962, Ogden Reid was elected to the Eighty-eighth Congress as a Republican.
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Ogden Reid was on the liberal fringe of the GOP and faced repeated challenges in primaries.
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Ogden Reid thanking him for coming to Alabama and visiting Selma.
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One of the most liberal Republicans in the House of Representatives, Ogden Reid voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1968, the Medicare program for the elderly, the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and was one of two Republican co-sponsors of the Kennedy-Griffiths universal healthcare bill in the House of Representatives in 1971, the other being Charles Adams Mosher of Ohio.
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Ogden Reid later served in the administration of Democratic governor Hugh Carey as Commissioner of Environmental Conservation and was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for the post of Westchester County Executive in 1983.
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Ogden Reid's papers are held with the Manuscripts and Archives at the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Ogden Reid was a member of the New York Athletic Club, the River Club and the Wings Club.
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Ogden Reid died on March 2,2019, at his home in Waccabuc, New York, at the age of 93.