Biography

06/21/1781 - 04/23/1849


LEECH, Samuel Erwin, Jr., a Representative from Montgomery County; born, June 21, 1781 in Pennsylvania; farmer; elected, commissioner, Montgomery County (1833); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1836-1837 and 1837-1838 term; appointed, justice of the peace (1838); elected, treasurer, Montgomery County (1839); elected, Presidential Elector (1844); died, April 23, 1849 in Cheltenham, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; interred, Abington Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Abington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.


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