in use in the legislature of the State of Washington. Biographies of the life of Thomas Brackett Reed have been written by Samuel McCall (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914), William A. Robinson (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1930), and Richard Stanley Offenberg (Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1963). Finance writer James Grant wrote the biography entitled, Mr. Speaker! The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed: the Man who Broke the Filibuster. The most recent scholarly biography is Thomas Brackett Reed: The Gilded Age Speaker Who Made the Rules for American Politics by Robert J. Klotz (University Press of Kansas, 2022). One chapter of Barbara Tuchman's The Proud Tower is substantially devoted to Reed. References Bibliography Hazard, Wendy. "Thomas Brackett Reed, Civil Rights, and the Fight for Fair Elections," Maine History, March 2004, Vol. 42 Issue 1, pp 1–23 Klotz, Robert J. "Thomas Brackett Reed: The Gilded Age Speaker Who Made the Rules for American Politics", University Press of Kansas, 2022. ISBN 978-0-7006-3332-6 Thomas, Evan. The War Lovers, Little, Brown and Co, 2010 Valelly, Richard M., “The Reed Rules and Republican Party Building A New Look,” Studies in American Political Development, 23 (Oct. 2009), 115–42. online Primary sources Roosevelt, Theodore; Reed, Thomas B. "'Dear Tom,' 'Dear Theodore': The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas B. Reed," edited by R. Hal Williams, Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, July 1994, Vol. 20 Issue 3/4, pp3–22, 20p. 23 letters from 1888–1902 discuss the Republican Party and its leaders, foreign policy, the gold and silver issues, New York State politics, and TR's activity as police commissioner of New York City. External links C-SPAN Q&A interview with James Grant about Mr. Speaker! The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed, The Man Who Broke the Filibuster, June 5, 2011 1839 births 1902 deaths 19th-century American lawyers 19th-century American politicians Bowdoin College alumni Burials at Evergreen Cemetery (Portland, Maine) Deans of the United States House of Representatives Deaths from appendicitis Deaths from kidney disease Maine Attorneys General Republican Party members of the Maine House of Representatives Paymasters Politicians from Portland, Maine Portland High School (Maine) alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Maine Speakers of the United States House of Representatives