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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaJames Russell LEECH
(1888-1952)
LEECH, James Russell, a
Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Ebensburg, Cambria
County, Pa., November 19, 1888; educated in the public and high
schools and the Mercersburg (Pa.) Academy; was graduated from
Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa., in 1911, and
from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania at
Philadelphia in 1915; was admitted to the bar in 1915 and commenced
practice in Ebensburg, Pa.; during the First World War was
appointed as a second lieutenant on November 27, 1917, and served
with the Seventh Ammunition Train; was honorably discharged on
January 20, 1919; elected as a Republican to the Seventieth,
Seventy-first, and Seventy-second Congresses and served from March
4, 1927, until his resignation on January 29, 1932, having been
appointed a member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals (now
Tax Court of the United States) to fill a vacancy; was reappointed
in 1934 and again in 1946, and served on this court until his death
in Chevy Chase, Md., on February 5, 1952; interment in Lloyd
Cemetery, Ebensburg, Pa.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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