Clarke Reed, a Mississippi businessman who developed the Republican Party in his home state and across the South starting in ...

As a former chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, he helped grow the party into a dominant force in the South ...

Clarke Reed, Who Helped Gerald Ford Win the 1976 Republican Nomination, Has Died at 96 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Clarke Reed, a Mississippi businessman who developed the Republican Party in his home ...

(AP) — Clarke Reed, a Mississippi businessman who developed the Republican Party in his home state and across the South starting in the 1960s, died Sunday ... President Gerald Ford and former ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — 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 ...