Member

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1941-1942 Representative Democrat
1943-1944 Representative Democrat
1945-1946 Representative Democrat
1949-1950 Representative Democrat
1951-1952 Representative Democrat
1953-1954 Representative Democrat
1955-1956 Representative Democrat
1957-1958 Representative Democrat
1959 Representative Democrat
1960 Representative Democrat
1961 Representative Democrat
1962 Representative Democrat
1963 Representative Democrat
1964 Representative Democrat
1965 Representative Democrat
1966 Representative Democrat
Counties Allegheny

Biography

04/22/1880 - 12/26/1969


LEONARD, Louis, a Representative from Allegheny County; born, April 22, 1880 in Belgium; steel worker (22 years); International Secretary-Treasurer, Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America (1919-1942); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat to serve the 1941, 1943 and 1945 terms; appointed, Joint State Government Commission, Sub-Committee on Child Welfare Laws, Juvenile Delinquency and Institutions (1945-1946); unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House for the 1947 term; reelected to the House for the 1949 term; reelected to serve 8 more consecutive terms thereafter; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1966); died, December 26, 1969; interred, St. Martin’s Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
 
 
 

Archival Collections


Louis Leonard Papers, 1884-1964, Historical Collection and Labor Archives, Special Collections Library, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pa.
 
 


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