Leon Sacks

Leon Sacks ( born October 7, 1902 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † March 11, 1972 ) was an American politician. Between 1937 and 1943 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Leon Sacks attended the public schools of his home and then the Wharton School, which is part of the University of Pennsylvania. After a subsequent law studies at this University and his 1926 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Philadelphia in this profession. Between 1935 and 1937 he was Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. From 1936 to 1942 he was a member of the State Board of his party.

In the congressional elections of 1936 Sacks was the first electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Harry C. Ransley on January 3, 1937. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1943 three legislative periods. By 1941, there the last of the New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration were adopted. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked. In 1942, Leon Sacks was not re-elected.

During the Second World War Sacks served as a Lieutenant Colonel 1943-1946 in a training camp of the Air Corps of the U.S. Army. He then practiced as a lawyer again. From 1959 to 1969 he was a member of the Veterans Commission of the State of Pennsylvania. Between 1952 and 1965 he served as Chairman of the convening authority in Philadelphia (registration commission ) and from 1957 to 1967 he was a member of the Military Reservation Commission. He died on 11 March 1972 in Philadelphia.