Owen D. Leib
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Owen D. Leib (c. 1803 - June 17, 1848) was a Democratic member of the
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from Pennsylvania.


Biography

Leib was born in Pennsylvania. He studied medicine and commenced practice in
Catawissa, Pennsylvania Catawissa is a borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 1,539 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Bloomsburg– Berwick Metropolitan Statistical Area. Catawissa is twinned with ...
. Leib was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress. He served as chairman of the
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. He died in Catawissa in 1848.


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The Political Graveyard
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