Paul Booker Reed was

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from 1885 to 1887.

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His father, William Decatur Reed was a lawyer and

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under Governor

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. P. Booker Reed studies at

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were interrupted by the

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, during which he served the

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for four years as a private in the

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and the Kentucky Ninth Infantry. After the war he attended

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in Europe. He started a successful manufacturing business in Louisville in the 1870s. In 1880 he was appointed to Louisville's

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, 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

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as a Republican from 1899 to 1900. He dropped out of the 1901 race for mayor. He then moved west to

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then to Canada. He was buried in

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in Louisville.

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