Paul Booker Reed was Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1885 to 1887.

P. Booker Reed studies at Centre College were interrupted by the Civil War, during which he served the Confederate Army for four years as a private in the Orphan Brigade and the Kentucky Ninth Infantry.

In 1880 he was appointed to Louisville's Chancery Court, and in 1884, with the support of emerging political boss John Whallen, he was elected mayor over John W. McGee.

After his term of mayor he served as president of the Board of Aldermen as a Republican from 1899 to 1900.

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