Former Pearland Mayor Tom Reid, who died Saturday at age 97, is being remembered for leading the city for four decades as it grew from a small agricultural community to the third-largest municipality in the Houston-Galveston region.
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"He was a gentleman's gentleman," said Cole."He was so likable, so personable and cared about people deeply. You could disagree with him and it remained professional. Quite frankly, it's what politics needs to go back to in our country. It's a tremendous loss for our city."Remembering his legacy “When I moved to Pearland, we only had about 2,500 people — it was all rice fields and cattle land,” Reid said in a
The 49-square-mile city now has more than 129,000 residents and includes subdivisions, hospitals and shopping centers.He served as Pearland's mayor from 1978 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 2020. City CouncilThe library at 3522 Liberty Drive is named for Reid.
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