Leonard Irving

Leonard Irving

Theodore Leonard Irving (March 24, 1898 - March 8, 1962) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.

Born in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, Irving moved with his parents to a farm in North Dakota.He attended the public schools of North Dakota.He worked for a railroad as a boy and during the First World War.He left the railroad to become manager of a theater in Montana.He moved to California and was manager of a hotel.He moved to Jackson County, Missouri, in 1934 and was employed as a construction worker and later became a representative of the American Federation of Labor.

Irving was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1953).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress. Defeated for Democratic nomination in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress. Labor organizer and later president of a labor union in Kansas City, Missouri.He died in Washington, D.C., while on a business trip March 8, 1962.He was interred in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri.

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