P. Booker Reed

Paul Booker Reed was Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1885 to 1887.

Paul Booker Reed
24th Mayor of Louisville
In office 1885-1887
Preceded by	Charles Donald Jacob
Succeeded by	Charles Donald Jacob
Personal details
Born	(1842-10-07)October 7, 1842 Frankfort, Kentucky, U.S.
Died	November 9, 1913(1913-11-09) (aged 71) Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada
Resting place	Cave Hill Cemetery Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Political party	Democratic Party
Parent	William Decatur Reed (father)
Education	Centre College
Military career
Allegiance	Confederate States of America
Service/branch	Confederate Army
Rank	Private
Unit	Orphan Brigade 9th Kentucky Infantry
Battles/wars	American Civil War

Biography

His father, William Decatur Reed was a lawyer and Kentucky Secretary of State under Governor William Owsley. P. Booker Reed studies at Centre College were interrupted by the Civil War, during which he served the Confederate Army for four years as a private in the Orphan Brigade and the Kentucky Ninth Infantry. After the war he attended medical school in Europe. He started a successful manufacturing business in Louisville in the 1870s.

In 1880 he was appointed to Louisville's Chancery Court, and in 1884, with the support of emerging political boss John Whallen, he was elected mayor over John W. McGee. During his three-year term he balanced the city's budget, cutting unnecessary city positions and lowering salaries, including his own.

After his term of mayor he served as president of the Board of Aldermen as a Republican from 1899 to 1900. He dropped out of the 1901 race for mayor.

He then moved west to Seattle then to Canada. He was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.

See also

• Southern Exposition

References

• "Reed, Paul Booker". The Encyclopedia of Louisville. 2001.
• Yater, George H. (1987). Two Hundred Years at the Fall of the Ohio: A History of Louisville and Jefferson County (2nd ed.). Louisville, KY: Filson Club, Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-9601072-3-0.