Elmer O. Leatherwood
Elmer O. Leatherwood | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Utah's 2nd district | |
In office March 4, 1921 – December 24, 1929 | |
Preceded by | James Henry Mays |
Succeeded by | Frederick C. Loofbourow |
Personal details | |
Born | University of Wisconsin | September 4, 1872
Elmer O. Leatherwood (September 4, 1872 – December 24, 1929) was a U.S. Representative from Utah.
Born on a farm near Waverly, Ohio, Leatherwood attended the public schools. He moved to Emporia, Kansas, in 1888. He was graduated from the Kansas State Normal School at Emporia, Kansas, in 1894. He engaged in public school work 1894–1898. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar at Hiawatha, Kansas, in 1898. He graduated from the law department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1901 and was admitted to practice. He moved to
Leatherwood was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1921, until his death in Washington, D.C., on December 24, 1929. He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses). He was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
See also
- List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
Sources
- United States Congress. "Elmer O. Leatherwood (id: L000181)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
External links
Leatherwood, Elmer O. Ours, the True Republic. Provo, Utah: L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University.