Leon H. Gavin’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American politician
Was Politician 
From United States of America 
Type Politics 
Gender male
Birth 25 February 1893, Buffalo
Death 15 September 1963, Washington, D.C.
(aged 70 years)

Leon Harry Gavin (February 25, 1893 – September 15, 1963) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

Leon H. Gavin was born in Buffalo, New York, and moved to Oil City, Pennsylvania, in 1915. During the First World War he served in the United States Army as a sergeant in the Fifty-first Infantry Regiment of the 6th Infantry Division. He served on the Defense Council of Venango County, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the State Board of Appeals of the Selective Service System, the executive secretary of the Oil City Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the National Migratory Bird Conservation Commission from 1958 to 1963.

He was elected as a Republican to the 78th United States Congress and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1943 until his death from a cerebral hemorrhage in Washington, D.C. on September 15, 1963. He is interred in Arlington National Cemetery.

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