William Bradford Reed

William Bradford Reed (1806–76) was an American politician and journalist, born in Philadelphia.

After graduating at the University of Pennsylvania in 1825 he went to Mexico as private secretary of Joel R. Poinsett, studied law, was elected Pennsylvania Attorney-General (1838), and was made professor of American history at the University of Pennsylvania (1850). In 1857, Reed became Minister to China, where he negotiated the Treaty of June, 1858, and on his return (1860) was active in Democratic Party politics and in New York journalism. For a time he was an American correspondent of The Times. Reed published many controversial and historical pamphlets and contributed essays chiefly to the American Quarterly and the North American Review. He wrote also an excellent Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed, his grandfather (1847), and Life of Esther de Berdt, afterward Esther Reed, his grandmother (1853).

His brother was educator Henry Hope Reed.

United States Ambassadors to China

Envoys to the Qing Empire 1843-1858	Caleb Cushing 1843-44 Alexander Hill Everett 1845-47 John Wesley Davis 1848-50 Humphrey Marshall 1852-54 Robert Milligan McLane 1853-54 Peter Parker 1855-57 William B. Reed 1857-58

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plentipotentiary to the Qing Empire 1858-1913	John Elliott Ward 1858-60 Anson Burlingame 1861-67 John Ross Browne 1868-69 Frederick F. Low 1869-73 Benjamin Avery 1874-75 George Seward 1876-80 James Burrill Angell 1880-81 John Russell Young 1882-85 Charles Harvey Denby 1885-98 Edwin H. Conger 1898-05 William Woodville Rockhill 1905-09 William James Calhoun 1909-13

Envoy to the Republic of China 1913-1929	Paul Samuel Reinsch 1913-19 Charles Richard Crane 1920-21 Jacob Gould Schurman 1921-25 John Van Antwerp MacMurray 1925-29

Ambassador to the Republic of China 1929-1949	Nelson T. Johnson 1929-41 Clarence E. Gauss 1941-44 Patrick J. Hurley 1944-45 John Leighton Stuart 1946-49 Embassy in Taipei 1949-Pres.

Chiefs of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing 1973-79	David K. E. Bruce 1973-74 George H. W. Bush 1974-75 Thomas S. Gates, Jr. 1976-77 Leonard Woodcock 1977-79

Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 1979-Present	Leonard Woodcock 1979-81 Arthur W. Hummel, Jr. 1981-85 Winston Lord 1985-89 James R. Lilley 1989-91 J. Stapleton Roy 1991-95 Jim Sasser 1996-99 Joseph Prueher 1999-01 Clark T. Randt, Jr. 2001-09 Jon Huntsman, Jr. 2009-11 Gary Locke 2011-

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Moore, F., eds. (1905). "article name needed". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

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Name	Reed, William Bradford
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Short description	American journalist
Date of birth	1806
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Date of death	1876
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