William Thackara Read (November 22, 1878 – August 7, 1954) was an American lawyer and politician from New Jersey.
He was also Solicitor of the borough of Riverton and the township of Voorhees, and for eight years he was District Examiner of the Camden Board of Education.
In 1909, he became second lieutenant of the Third Regiment of the New Jersey National Guard and assigned to the First Battalion as quartermaster and commissary.
[2] In 1911, Read was elected to the New Jersey Senate as a Republican, representing Camden County.
[10] Read was vice-president of the First National Bank and director of the West Jersey Trust Co. of Camden and the Colestown Cemetery Co.
He was a member of the American Bar Association, the New Jersey State Bar Association, the Camden County Bar Association, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Philadelphia Club, the Army and Navy Club, the Freemasons, the Knights Templar,[11] and the Sons of the American Revolution.