Seaborn Reese

Seaborn Reese (November 28, 1846 – March 1, 1907) was an American politician, jurist and lawyer who served three terms in the United States House of Representatives.

Personal life Seaborn Reese was born on November 28, 1846, son of Augustus Reese, a judge, in Madison, Georgia. He attended the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens but left before graduating in his senior year of 1868. He studied law, gained admittance to the state bar in 1871 and began a law practice in Madison. and was buried in that city's Methodist Church Cemetery. He was reelected to the 48th and 49th Congresses and served from December 4, 1882, until March 3, 1887. He was also elected president of Hancock County's Hancock Fair Association.

After his congressional service, Reese served from 1893 to 1900 as judge of the northern judicial circuit. In 1897, state senator Yancey Carter, leader of the state senate's Populists, accused him and another judge of being drunk on the bench and using profanity in the presence of ladies, for which articles of impeachment were introduced against him, but these charges did not stick.