Leonard S. Echols

Leonard Sidney Echols ( born October 30, 1871 in Madison, Boone County, West Virginia; † May 9, 1946 in Charleston, West Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1923 he represented the sixth electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Leonard Echols attended the public schools of his home, then until 1894, the University of Kentucky in Kentucky and finally to 1898 the Concord State Normal School in Athens ( West Virginia). After studying law at the Southern Normal University at Huntingdon (Tennessee ) and its made ​​in 1900 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession from 1903 in Point Pleasant.

From 1904 to 1909, Echols was district attorney in Mason County. Between 1909 and 1919 he served as Deputy Minister of Finance ( Assistant State Tax Commissioner) of West Virginia. Echols was a member of the Republican Party and was elected in 1918 as the candidate for the sixth district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1919, the successor to the Democrats Adam Brown Littlepage. After a re-election in 1920 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1923 two legislative sessions. He was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Navy Department. At this time the 20th Amendment was passed, which introduced the nationwide women's suffrage.

In the congressional elections of 1922 and 1924, Echols was subject to each Democrat J. Alfred Taylor. Between 1923 and 1924 he was a member of a committee, which controlled the Treasury. In 1924 he participated in West Virginia as a delegate to the Republican convention. Between 1925 and 1928 led Echols the post office in Charleston; after that he worked as a lawyer again. He also worked as a state bankruptcy trustee. He died on 9 May 1946 in Charleston.