Cornelius Leary

Cornelius Lawrence Ludlow Leary ( born October 22, 1813 in Baltimore, Maryland, † March 21, 1893 ) was an American politician. Between 1861 and 1863 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Cornelius Leary attended the common schools and the St. Mary's College in Baltimore, where he graduated in 1833. Between 1833 and 1837 he lived in Louisville (Kentucky ); then he returned to Baltimore. Politically, he then joined the Whig Party, which broke up again in the 1850s. In 1838 and 1839 he sat in the House of Maryland. After a subsequent law degree in 1840 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Baltimore in this profession.

In the congressional elections of 1860, Leary was a Unionist in the third electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Morrison Harris on March 4, 1861. Until March 3, 1863, he was able to complete a term in Congress, which was shaped by the events of the Civil War. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Leary again practiced as a lawyer. He died on 21 March 1893, in Baltimore.

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