Leonard Myers

For the American football player, see Leonard Myers (American football).
Leonard Myers

Leonard Myers (November 13, 1827 February 11, 1905) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania during the American Civil War and the early years of Reconstruction.

Biography

Leonard Myers was born in Attleboro, Pennsylvania (now Langhorne, Pennsylvania). He attended the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia and studied law, but did not earn a degree.[1]

He was major of the Ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, during the emergency service of September 1862 when Pennsylvania felt threatened by Robert E. Lee during the Maryland Campaign.

He was elected to Congress as a Republican in 1862. He successfully contested the election of John Moffet to the 41st Congress. He was reelected in 1868 and served until March 3, 1875. He served as Chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (42nd United States Congress), United States House Committee on Patents (42nd Congress), and United States House Committee on Private Land Claims (43rd United States Congress). He was defeated in 1874.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
John P. Verree
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district

1863–1869
Succeeded by
John Moffet
Preceded by
John Moffet
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district

1869–1875
Succeeded by
Samuel J. Randall
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