Edwin Godwin Reade (November 13, 1812 – October 18, 1894) was a U.S. congressman from North Carolina between 1855 and 1857.

Edwin Godwin Reade was born on November 13, 1812, in Person County, North Carolina.

[1][2] In his early life, he worked on a farm, in a carriage shop, for a blacksmith, and in a tanyard.

[1] During the Civil War, John A. Gilmer wrote a letter to Reade on behalf of William H. Seward to consider a cabinet position under President Abraham Lincoln.

[1] In 1863, Governor Zebulon Vance appointed Reade to the Confederate Senate to fill the seat of George Davis, who had resigned to become the Confederacy's Attorney General.

In 1868, he was named as associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, a post he held until 1879.