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Mar 24, 1898 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States Died on 08 Mar 1962 (aged 63)
American politician
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About Leonard Irving
- Theodore Leonard Irving (March 24, 1898 – March 8, 1962) was a U.S.
- Representative from Missouri. Born in St.
- Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, Irving moved with his parents to a farm in North Dakota. He attended the public schools of North Dakota. He worked for a railroad as a boy and during the First World War. He left the railroad to become manager of a theater in Montana. He moved to California and was manager of a hotel. He moved to Jackson County, Missouri, in 1934 and was employed as a construction worker and later became a representative of the American Federation of Labor. Irving was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1953).
- He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress. Defeated for Democratic nomination in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress. Labor organizer and later president of a labor union in Kansas City, Missouri. He died on March 8, 1962 in Washington, D.C., while on a business trip.
- He was interred in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Kansas City.
