Beisner, Robert L. "That Fat, Sarcastic Man." In Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900, pp. 203-11. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968.
REED, Thomas Brackett, a Representative from Maine; born in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, October 18, 1839; attended the public schools; was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1860; studied law; acting assistant paymaster, United States Navy, from April 19, 1864, to November 4, 1865; was admitted to the bar in 1865 and commenced practice in Portland, Maine; member of the State house of representatives in 1868 and 1869; served in the State senate in 1870; attorney general of Maine 1870-1872; city solicitor of Portland 1874-1877; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1877, to September 4, 1899, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Forty-seventh Congress), Committee on Rules (Fifty-first, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses); Speaker of the House of Representatives (Fifty-first, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses); moved to New York City and engaged in the practice of his profession; died in Washington, D.C., on December 7, 1902; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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Grant, James. Mr. Speaker!: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed, The Man Who Broke the Filibuster. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Maine. Legislature. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Thomas Brackett Reed delivered in joint assembly of the two branches of the Legislature, Wednesday, January 28, 1903. Augusta, Maine: Kennebec Journal print, 1903.
McCall, Samuel Walker. The Life of Thomas Brackett Reed. 1914. Reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1972.
___. Thomas Brackett Reed, Address by Hon. Samuel W. McCall, upon the unveiling of the monument of Hon. Thomas Brackett Reed at Portland, Me., August 31, 1910. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911.
Offenberg, Richard S. "The Political Career of Thomas Brackett Reed." Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1963.
Reed, Thomas Brackett. Address of Hon. Thomas B. Reed. Portland, Maine: S. Berry, printer, 1884.
___. "Hon. T.B. Reed's Oration." In John T. Hull, ed., An Account of the Municipal Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Portland, July 4th, 5th and 6th, 1886, pp. 278-99. Portland, Maine: Printed by Owen, Strout and Company, 1886.
___. Orations and addresses delivered by Thomas Brackett Reed. Portland, Maine: Privately printed, 1911.
___. Reed's Rules. A Manual of General Parliamentary Law, with Notes of Changes made by the House of Representatives, and suggestions for Special Rules. Chicago: Rand, McNally and Company, 1899.
___. "Reforms Needed in the House." North American Review 150 (May 1890): 537-46.
___. "Should the Cabinet Officers Have Seats in Congress?" The Illustrated American 22 (31 July 1897): 137-38.
___. Speeches of Hon. Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, on protection, and Hon. Roger Q. Mills, of Texas, and Sen. Geo. G. Vest, of Missouri, on free trade, also the platforms and candidates of the Democratic, Republican, Prohibition and the Union and United Labor parties. New York: M. J. Ivers and Company, 1888.
___. "Two Congresses Contrasted." North American Review 155 (August 1892): 227-36.
Robinson, William Alexander. Thomas Brackett Reed: Parliamentarian. New York: Dodd Mead and Company, 1930.
Stein, Douglas L. "Thomas B. Reed and the Republican Party, 1890-1898." M. A. thesis, Illinois State University, 1972.
Thomas Brackett Reed Memorial Association. Exercises at the unveiling of the statue of Thomas Brackett Reed. Portland, Maine: Stephen Berry Company, printers, 1911 [?].
Tuchman, Barbara. "End of a Dream." In The Proud Tower, pp. 134-94. New York: Bantam Books, 1966.