Edward L. Leahy

Edward L. Leahy

Edward Lawrence Leahy (born February 9, 1886 in Bristol , Rhode Island , †  July 22, 1953 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Rhode Island in the US Senate .

Edward Leahy attended the public schools in Rhode Island and studied from 1904 to 1905 first at Brown University in Providence before he graduated from the Law School of Georgetown University in 1908 and was admitted to the bar in his home state in the same year. He then began practicing law in Bristol. In 1910 he became a judge at the probate court there; he held this post until 1939.

Leahy was politically active for the first time between 1911 and 1913 as a member of the House of Representatives from Rhode Island . In 1913 he was also elected to the Bristol School Board. At that time he also headed the equity section of a law firm's court. During the First World War he was a member of the Judge Advocate General's Department of the US Army with the rank of first lieutenant .

Between 1919 and 1948 Leahy was the tax authority of Rhode Island; in 1939 he was a member of the state government as director of the Department of Revenue and Regulation . He later served on the State Repayment Fund Committee and the Rhode Island Pension Authority. From 1948 to 1949 he worked as an advisor to the state finance ministry. Finally, on August 24, 1949, he was appointed US Senator in Washington . Edward Leahy released the as justice minister in the federal cabinet exchanged J. Howard McGrath , and remained until 18 December 1950 the Senate. He did not run for the by-election for the mandate that John O. Pastore , previously Governor of Rhode Island, won. Leahy was subsequently a judge in the Federal District Court of Rhode Island from January 1951 until his death in July 1953 .

Web links

• Edward L. Leahy in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edward L. Leahy in the database of Find a Grave (English)