REAMS, HENRY FRAZIER, a Representative from Ohio; born in Franklin, Williamson County,
Tenn., January 15, 1897; attended the public schools of Tennessee; during First
World War enlisted as a private in 1918 and served with the Fifty-eighth Field
Artillery, United States Army, until discharged as a lieutenant in 1919;
graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1919 and from
Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, Tenn., in 1922; was admitted to
the Tennessee bar in 1920 and commenced the practice of law in Nashville; moved
to Toledo, Ohio, in 1922, admitted to the Ohio bar in 1923, and continued the
practice of law; delegate to Democratic National Conventions in 1928, 1932,
1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, and 1956; prosecuting attorney of Lucas County, Ohio,
1933-1937; member of Toledo Port Commission 1939-1945; collector of internal
revenue at Toledo, Ohio, 1942-1944; State director of public welfare in 1945
and 1946; president and treasurer of Community Broadcasting Co. 1937-1960; also
interested in the banking business; trustee of Bowling Green State University
1948-1957; delegate to the Council of Europe at Strasbourg in 1951 and to the
Interparliamentary Union Conferences in Washington, D.C., in 1953 and in
Vienna, Austria, in 1954; elected as an Independent to the Eighty-second and to
the Eighty-third Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1955); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress; resumed the
practice of law; chairman of board, Reams Broadcasting Corp. since 1965; died
in Oakland, Calif., September 15, 1971; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Toledo,
Ohio.
