Frank A. Leach

For the American businessman and Wisconsin politician, see Frank A. Leach (politician).
Frank A. Leach
Frank A. Leach
Director of the United States Mint
In office
September 1907 – August 1909
PresidentTheodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Preceded byGeorge E. Roberts
Succeeded byAbram Andrew

Frank Aleamon Leach (August 19, 1846 – June 19, 1929) was a United States newspaperman who was Director of the United States Mint from 1906 to 1909. In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the heroic efforts by Frank A. Leach and his men preserved the old San Francisco Mint building and the bullion that then backed the nation's currency.