Ogden R. Reid

A Representative from New York. Born in New York City, June 24, 1925. Student, Deerfield Academy, 1940-1943. Yale University, A. B. , 1949. Fellow of Brandeis University and Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Associated with the New York Herald-Tribune as president of Societe Anonyme and president, editor and director, 1953-1959. Enlisted as a private in the United States Army in 1943 and discharged as a first lieutenant in 1946. Captain, United States Army Reserve, inactive. United States Ambassador to Israel, 1959-1961. Chairman, New York State Commission for Human Rights, 1961-1962. Trustee, Hampton Institute. Member of advisory council, School of International Affairs, Columbia University. Vice president of National Institute of Social Sciences. Director of Atlantic Council of the United States. Elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses. Changed party affiliation to Democrat effective March 22, 1972. Reelected as a Democrat to the Ninety-third Congress (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1975). Was not a candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress, but was a candidate for nomination for Governor of New York until he withdrew from the race. Commissioner of Environmental Conservation for the State of New York from January 1975 to May 1976. Died on March 2, 2019, in Waccabuc, N. Y.