Moses Gage Leonard (July 10, 1809 – March 20, 1899) was an American politician who served one term as a

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from New York from 1843 to 1845.

Biography

Born in

Stafford, Connecticut Stafford is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States, settled in 1719. The population was 11,472 at the 2020 United States Census. The community consists of the downtown area of Stafford Springs and the more rural villages of Cry ...

, Leonard grew up in

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and attended the public schools. He moved to New York City. City alderman and judge of the city court 1840-1842.

Congress

Leonard was elected as a

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to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843 – March 4, 1845). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress. Almshouse commissioner in 1846.

Later career and death

He served as proprietor and director of ice companies. He served as commissioner of immigration at the port of New York. He moved to

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

. He served as a member of the city council of San Francisco in 1850. He returned to New York and served as provost marshal in the Tenth Congressional District of New York during the

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. He died in

Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

, on March 20, 1899. He was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery,

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Leonard, Moses Gage 1809 births 1899 deaths Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) California Democrats Politicians from San Francisco New York City Council members 19th-century American legislators People from Stafford, Connecticut People from Union, Connecticut