Leonard Irving, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Leonard Irving

American politician

Date of Birth: 24-Mar-1898

Place of Birth: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Date of Death: 08-Mar-1962

Profession: railway, politician, construction worker, trade unionist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Theodore Leonard Irving (March 24, 1898 – March 8, 1962) was a U.S.
Representative from Missouri. Born in St.
Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, Irving moved with his parents to a farm in North Dakota. He attended the public schools of North Dakota. He worked for a railroad as a boy and during the First World War. He left the railroad to become manager of a theater in Montana. He moved to California and was manager of a hotel. He moved to Jackson County, Missouri, in 1934 and was employed as a construction worker and later became a representative of the American Federation of Labor. Irving was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1953).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress. Defeated for Democratic nomination in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress. Labor organizer and later president of a labor union in Kansas City, Missouri. He died on March 8, 1962 in Washington, D.C., while on a business trip.
He was interred in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Kansas City.