Leonard Irving
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 in Washington, D.C., while on a business trip March 8, 1962. He was interred in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri.
Electoral History
| 1948 Missouri's 4th congressional district | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Leonard Irving | 74,725 | 64.1% | |
| Republican | Richard A. Erickson | 41,576 | 35.7% | |
| Progressive | R.D. Farnsworth | 252 | 0.2% | |
| Socialist-Labor | Overheu | 11 | 0.01% | |
| Majority | — | — | ||
| Democratic hold | ||||
| 1950 Missouri's 4th congressional district | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Leonard Irving | 53,424 | 61.6% | |
| Republican | Vernon D. Fulcrut | 33,367 | 38.4% | |
| Majority | — | — | ||
| Democratic hold | ||||
| 1952 Missouri's 4th congressional district | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Leonard Irving | 84,899 | 46.7% | |
| Republican | Jeffrey P. Hillelson | 96,988 | 53.3% | |
| Majority | — | — | ||
| Republican gain from Democratic | ||||
References
- United States Congress. "Leonard Irving (id: I000037)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.