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Clarke Thomas Reed (born 1928) is a businessman and investor from Greenville, Mississippi, who was from 1966 to 1976 the state chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party. Reed was instrumental in the nomination of U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, Jr., at the 1976 Republican National Convention held in Kansas City, Missouri. ==Background== Reed was reared in Caruthersville in Pemiscot County in the Bootheel of southeastern Missouri. He attended the University of Missouri at Columbia. Reed's father established a soybean-processing plant in Greenville, and Reed moved there in 1950 to join the family business. Reed and Company, formed in 1953, manufactured and sold grain bins of corrugated-steel. Years later, the Reed-Joseph Company was formed with an unusual mission: to make noise to keep birds away from places where they are a nuisance, such as airports, retention ponds, farmland, landfills, and golf courses.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tom Bassing, "Reed-Joseph's clients worldwide rely on its ability to make noise — lots of it: Greenville company’s clients worldwide rely on its ability to make noise — lots of it," August 12, 2013 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Clarke Reed )〕 Despite his Missouri roots, the scholars Jack Bass and Walter DeVries reported in a 1974 interview that Reed is a native of Mississippi. Perhaps they typed "Mississippi", instead of "Missouri" since both states begin with "Miss", and they were interviewing in Mississippi.〔 A member of the First Presbyterian Church of Greenville, Reed has also served as the treasurer of the Los Angeles-based Presbyterian Forum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Clarke Reed )〕 In his early years, Reed once said that the church was about his only activity outside of school or work.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clarke Reed」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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