Name Leon Sacks Died March 11, 1972 | Resigned January 3, 1943 | |
Role Former U.S. Representative Previous office Representative (PA 1st District) 1937–1943 Education Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania | ||
Member of congress start date January 3, 1937 | ||
Leon Sacks (October 7, 1902 – March 11, 1972) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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Early life
Leon Sacks was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1923, and from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1926. He commenced the practice of law in Philadelphia in 1926. He was appointed deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania in February 1935 and served until January 1937. He was elected as a member of the Democratic State committee in 1936 and served until 1942.
United States House of Representatives
He was elected in 1936 as a Democrat to the 75th United States Congress and to the two succeeding Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942.
World War II and later life
He served at Army Air Forces Eastern Flying Training Command, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, from January 4, 1943, to January 10, 1946, when resumed the practice of his profession. He was a member of State Veterans Commission from 1951 to 1969, and the chairman of the registration commission of Philadelphia from 1952 to 1965. He was a member of Military Reservations Commission from 1957 to 1967.