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Leon Harry Gavin (February 25, 1893 – September 15, 1963) was a
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member of the U.S. House of Representatives from
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.


Biography

Leon H. Gavin was born in
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, and moved to
Oil City, Pennsylvania Oil City is a city in Venango County, Pennsylvania known for its prominence in the initial exploration and development of the petroleum industry. It is located at a bend in the Allegheny River at the mouth of Oil Creek (Allegheny River tributary) ...
, in 1915. During the
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he served in the
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as a sergeant in the Fifty-first Infantry Regiment of the
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. He served on the Defense Council of
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. He was a member of the State Board of Appeals of the
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, the executive secretary of the Oil City
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, and a member of the National Migratory Bird Conservation Commission from 1958 to 1963. He was elected as a Republican to the
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and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1943 until his death from a cerebral hemorrhage in Washington, D.C. on September 15, 1963. He is interred in
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. Gavin voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and
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, as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.


See also

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The Political Graveyard
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gavin, Leon H. 1893 births 1963 deaths Politicians from Buffalo, New York Burials at Arlington National Cemetery United States Army personnel of World War I Military personnel from Pennsylvania People from Venango County, Pennsylvania Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 20th-century American politicians