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Sep 30, 1849 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Died on 17 Oct 1930 (aged 81)
American lawyer
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About John Brooks Leavitt
- John Brooks Leavitt (1849–1930) was a New York City attorney, author and reformer.
- As member of the "Good Government" movement, Leavitt crusaded against Tammany Hall municipal corruption, demanding in 1897 the indictment of United States Senator Thomas C.
- Platt on charges of extorting bribes from the New York Life Insurance Company in return for favors to the insurance giant.
- "We have positive evidence, which as soon as New York has an honest District Attorney," Leavitt told a crowd of 2,000 gathered at Long Acre Square on Broadway, "will be laid before him, and we then shall be able to obtain an indictment and send the arch-boss to the jail which yawns for him."
