Leonard Irving | |
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.jpg) Postcard photo from 1954 campaign for the US House | |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri's 4th district | |
| In office January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1953 | |
| Preceded by | C. Jasper Bell |
| Succeeded by | Jeffrey Paul Hillelson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Theodore Leonard Irving March 24, 1898 St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | March 8, 1962 (aged 63) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Resting place | Mount Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
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, where he attended the public schools. He worked for a railroad as a boy and during the First World War; later, he left the railroad to become manager of a theater in Montana. Irving then 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 unsuccessful for reelection in 1952 and in a bid for the Democratic nomination in 1954. He once again became a labor organizer, and later was president of a labor union in Kansas City, Missouri.
He died on March 8, 1962, in Washington, D.C., while on a business trip, and was interred in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Kansas City.