Leonidas Shaver (died June 29, 1855) was a justice of the

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of the

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from 1852 to 1855. Shaver was appointed by President

Millard Fillmore Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800March 8, 1874) was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853; he was the last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House. A former member of the U.S. House of Represen ...

in September 1852 to replace Perry E. Brocchus, whom the president had removed from office. Shaver died in office in 1855, and his successor, William Wormer Drummond, asserted that Shaver had been murdered, writing in his own 1857 letter of resignation that Shaver "came to his death by drinking poisonous liquors given to him under the orders of the leading men of the Mormon church"."Resignation of Judge Drummond, of Utah", ''

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'' (April 18, 1857), p. 2.

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Justices of the Utah Supreme Court United States Article I federal judges appointed by Millard Fillmore 1855 deaths Date of birth unknown Year of birth missing {{US-state-judge-stub