Fred Churchill Leonard (Pennsylvania Congressman)

Fred Churchill Leonard (February 16, 1856 – December 5, 1921) was a

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member of the

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from

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. Fred C. Leonard was born in Elmer, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools, the State normal school at

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, and

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. He graduated from

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in 1883. He studied law in

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, and was admitted to the bar in 1885. He moved to

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, and thence, in 1887, to

Coudersport, Pennsylvania Coudersport is a borough in and the county seat of Potter County, Pennsylvania. It is located approximately east by south of Erie on the Allegheny River. The population was 2,371 at the 2020 census. History The Coudersport and Port Allegany Rail ...

, and practiced law. Leonard was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1896. He resumed the practice of law in Coudersport. He served as United States marshal for the western district of Pennsylvania from January 15, 1898, until May 6, 1901, when he was transferred to the middle district and served until July 2, 1906. He was engaged in banking, and died in Coudersport in 1921. Interment in Eulalia Cemetery.

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