Cornelius Lawrence Ludlow Leary (October 22, 1813 – March 21, 1893) was an American politician from

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. Leary was born in

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, and attended the public schools. He graduated from St. Mary's College of Baltimore in 1833, and afterwards moved to

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. He returned to Baltimore in 1837, and served as a Whig member of the

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in 1838 and 1839. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1840, and commenced practice in Baltimore. He was also a presidential elector on Maryland's victorious American Party ticket in

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. Leary was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh Congress, where he served from March 4, 1861, to March 3, 1863. After his term in Congress, he resumed the practice of law in Baltimore, where he died. He is interred in Lorraine Cemetery.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Leary, Cornelius Lawrence Ludlow 1813 births 1893 deaths Members of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland Members of the Maryland House of Delegates Maryland Unionists Maryland Know Nothings Maryland Whigs Unionist Party members of the United States House of Representatives 1856 United States presidential electors 19th-century American politicians