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Elmer O. Leatherwood (September 4, 1872 – December 24, 1929) was a
U.S. Representative The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they c ...
from Utah. Born on a farm near Waverly, Ohio, Leatherwood attended the public schools. He moved to
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, in 1888. He was graduated from the Kansas State Normal School at Emporia, Kansas, in 1894. He engaged in public school work 1894–1898. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar at
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, in 1898. He graduated from the law department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1901 and was admitted to practice. He moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, the same year and continued the practice of his profession. He served as district attorney for the third judicial district of Utah 1908–1916. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1924. He served as president of the Western Powder Co., Leary & Warren Stockyards, Hellgate Mining & Milling Co., and the Olympus Mining & Milling Co. Leatherwood was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1921, until his death in Washington, D.C., on December 24, 1929. He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings ( Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses). He was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Leatherwood, Elmer O. 1872 births 1929 deaths University of Wisconsin Law School alumni District attorneys in Utah People from Waverly, Ohio People from Emporia, Kansas Businesspeople from Salt Lake City Lawyers from Salt Lake City Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Utah 19th-century American lawyers