DeWitt C. Leach

DeWitt Clinton Leach ( born November 23, 1822 in Clarence, Erie County, New York, † December 21, 1909 in Springfield, Missouri ) was an American politician. Between 1857 and 1861 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

During his childhood drew DeWitt Leach with his parents in the Genesee County, Michigan Territory, where he attended the public schools. He then worked as a teacher. In 1841 he moved to Lansing, which later became the capital of the state of Michigan. There he was for several years the newspaper out, " Michigan State Republican ". In the years 1849 and 1850, Leach sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan. In 1850 he was part of a commission for the revision of the State Constitution.

Leach was a member of the founding meeting of the Republican Party in Michigan, which met in Jackson on July 6, 1854. Between 1855 and 1857 he held the position of State Librarian. In the congressional elections of 1856 Leach was in the fourth electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George Washington Peck of the Democratic Party on March 4, 1857. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1861 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the Civil War. Leach experienced early 1861, the exodus of the congressmen from the South who joined the Confederacy.

In 1860, DeWitt Leach gave up another Congress candidate. From 1861 to 1865 he worked for the Federal Government as an Indian agent for the area of the State of Michigan. In 1865 he moved to Traverse City, where he spent nine years the newspaper " Grand Traverse Herald " published. In 1867 he was again a delegate to a meeting to revise the State Constitution. 1875 Leach moved his residence to Springfield in Missouri. There he worked as a newspaper editor. Already in 1882 he returned to Traverse City, where he led the newspaper " Northwest Farmer" moved to 1902. In 1902, DeWitt Leach withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Springfield, where he died on 21 December 1909. He was married to Abigail P. Comfort (1829-1918), with whom he had three children.