As a former chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, he helped grow the party into a dominant force in the South ...
Nearly 35 years ago, former president Gerald Ford stood in a room full of schoolchildren in West Branch, Iowa, and faced an ...
During the 1976 Republican National Convention, delegates were closely divided between President Gerald Ford and former California Gov. Ronald Reagan. Reed united the Mississippi delegation behind ...
JACKSON, Miss. — Clarke Reed, a Mississippi businessman who developed the Republican Party in his home state and across the South starting in the 1960s, died Sunday at his home in Greenville, ...