- Fred Churchill Leonard
Fred Churchill Leonard (
February 16 ,1856 –December 5 ,1921 ) was a Republican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Fred C. Leonard was born in
Elmer, Pennsylvania . He attended the public schools, the State normal school atMansfield, Pennsylvania , andWilliston Seminary inEasthampton, Massachusetts . He graduated fromYale College in 1883. He studied law inWellsboro, Pennsylvania , and was admitted to the bar in 1885. He moved toElmira, New York , and thence, in 1887, toCoudersport, Pennsylvania , and practiced law.Leonard was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1896. He resumed the practice of law in Coudersport. He served as United States marshal for the western district of Pennsylvania from January 15, 1898, until May 6, 1901, when he was transferred to the middle district and served until July 2, 1906. He was engaged in banking, and died in Coudersport in 1921. Interment in Eulalia Cemetery.
ources
*CongBio|L000245
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leonard.html The Political Graveyard]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.