American lawyer
Walter Newton "Bud" Read (February 8, 1918 – December 22, 2001) was an American lawyer and the second chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission , from 1982 to 1989.[1]
Biography
Read, whose nickname was "Bud," was born on February 8, 1918, in Camden, New Jersey .[2] Read graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1939 and from University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1941.[3] He served as a naval officer in World War II and retired from the United States Naval Reserve in 1962 with the rank of lieutenant commander.
Read was a partner in the law firm Archer, Greiner & Read. He left the firm in 1982 to accept appointment by Governor Thomas Kean as chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission.[4]
Read died on December 22, 2001, at his home in Cinnaminson Township, New Jersey at the age of 83 from cancer.[1] Read's father, William T. Read , served as New Jersey State Treasurer and a State Senator .[5]
References
^ a b "Walter N. Read. Casino Commission Chairman, 83" . The New York Times . January 1, 2002. Retrieved 2009-11-14 .
^ "Senate's treatment of Read nomination was shameful, rude" , Donohue, Joseph, The Press of Atlantic City , 1990-01-07. "The most shabby example is their refusal to name outgoing Casino Control Commission Chairman Walter "Bud" Read to the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority."
^ Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania . University of Pennsylvania . 1943.
^ Janson, Donald (October 14, 1982). "Kean picks new casino agency chief" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2009-11-14 .
^ Camden people , The Delaware Valley Rhythm & Blues Society, Inc. website, accessed June 10, 2009.