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Monday, 28 August
James Reed, 89
Professions: Assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President John F. Kennedy, leading efforts to reorganize the Customs Service and overseeing several divisions, including the U.S. Customs, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and the Bureau of Narcotics; started his own firm, J. A. Reed & Co., Ltd., in the mid-1970s; served as special counsel to the Shah of Iran under the Pahlavi Foundation. Degrees: B.A. from Amherst College, 1941; L.L.B. from Harvard Law School, 1948.
Death: August 23, 2006, at Blue Hill Memorial Hospital in Blue Hill, Maine, from complications of pulmonary fibrosis.
From the Boston Globe.
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