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Reece was the Republican nominee for an open Senate seat in 1948, but lost to Democratic Congressman Estes Kefauver.

However, two years later he ran against the man who succeeded him in his old House seat, Dayton Phillips, and defeated him in the Republican primary.

This all but assured him of a return to Congress in the heavily Republican district.

He was reelected five more times.

When the Republicans gained control of the House after the 1952 elections, Reece served as chairman of the Special Committee on Tax Exempt Foundations, losing this post after the Democrats regained control in 1955.

During his time in Congress, he was a social and fiscal conservative who supported isolationism and civil rights legislation.