Arthur Kenneth Reading

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Arthur Kenneth Reading
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Massachusetts Attorney General
In office
1927 – June 6, 1928
Preceded by Jay R. Benton
Succeeded by Joseph E. Warner
Middlesex County District Attorney
In office
1923–1926
Succeeded by Robert T. Bushnell
Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
3rd Middlesex District[1]
In office
1919[1] – 1922[1]
Personal details
Born March 9, 1887[2]
Williamsport, Pennsylvania[1][2]
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Orlando, Florida
Political party Republican Party[1]
Alma mater Harvard Law School[2]
Profession Lawyer[2]

Arthur Kenneth Reading (March 9, 1887 – March 1, 1971) was an American politician who served as Massachusetts Attorney General from 1927–1928.[2]

Biography

Reading was born on March 9, 1887 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.[2]

Reading was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1919 to 1922, he was the District Attorney of Middlesex County, Massachusetts from 1923 to 1926 before being elected Attorney General in 1926.[2]

Reading resigned as Attorney General on June 6, 1928 after the Massachusetts House of Representatives voted 196 to 18 to impeach him after he accepted $60,000 worth of bribes, the largest being a $25,000 bribe from Decimo Club, Inc.[3]

He died on March 1, 1971 in Orlando, Florida.

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