Leopold Markbreit (March 13, 1842 – July 27, 1909) was a German-American Republican politician in
Cincinnati, Ohio. The half-brother of
Frederick Hassaurek, Markbreit was a lawyer who was briefly the law partner of
Rutherford B. Hayes. President
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant ; April 27, 1822July 23, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As Commanding General, he led the Union Ar ...
appointed him
Minister to Bolivia in 1869. He later served as
Mayor of Cincinnati from 1908-1909.
He served as a
presidential elector in 1896 for
McKinley and
Hobart
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.
[ Taylor 1899 : vol. 2, 136]
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Mayors of Cincinnati
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Burials at Spring Grove Cemetery
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