John E. Leonard
John Edwards Leonard (September 22, 1845 – March 15, 1878) was a United States Representative from Louisiana. He was the grandnephew of John Edwards (Pennsylvania) who also served in Congress. He was born in Fairville, Pennsylvania.
Leonard attended the public schools and was later graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire in 1863 and then earned a law degree from Harvard University in 1867. He studied law in Germany before he returned to the United States and was admitted to the bar in Louisiana in 1870 and commenced practice at Monroe, Louisiana.
Leonard was the district attorney of the thirteenth judicial district of Louisiana in 1871 and 1872. He was elected associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court in 1876 before he resumed the practice of his profession in Monroe, Louisiana. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1877, until his death in Havana, Cuba, while vacationing with several other Washington leaders on March 15, 1878. He was buried in the Friends’ (Hicksite) Cemetery of the Middletown Meeting House, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
References
- United States Congress. "John E. Leonard (id: L000247)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 5th congressional district March 4, 1877 – March 15, 1878 |
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