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May 28, 1881 Rochester, New York, United States Died on 01 Jan 1962 (aged 80)
American politician
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- Thomas Read was a Republican politician from Michigan who served in the Michigan House of Representatives including as its Speaker during the 50th Legislature, as Lieutenant Governor of Michigan under Alex J.
- Groesbeck, as a member of the Michigan State Senate, and as Michigan Attorney General.Born in Rochester, New York of English and Scottish ancestry to Thomas and Jane Read on May 28, 1881, Read was either a candidate for or served in nearly all state-level offices in Michigan (he was never a candidate for or elected Secretary of State).
- He was a candidate in the primary for Governor of Michigan in 1924, losing to Alex J.
- Groesbeck, and 1940, losing to Luren Dickinson. Read was a presidential elector for Michigan in 1928, casting a ballot for Herbert Hoover, and a delegate to the 1940 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia which nominated Wendell Willkie (who eventually lost to Franklin D.
- Roosevelt.
- Senator Arthur H.
- Vandenberg of Michigan was a candidate for the nomination at that convention. The elementary school in his hometown of Shelby is named for Read.
