Walter Leake
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Walter D. Leake | |
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3rd Governor of Mississippi | |
In office January 7, 1822 – November 6, 1825 | |
Lieutenant | David Dickson Gerard Brandon |
Preceded by | George Poindexter |
Succeeded by | Gerard Brandon |
United States Senator from Mississippi | |
In office December 10, 1817 – May 15, 1820 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | David Holmes |
Personal details | |
Born | Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia, British America | May 20, 1762
Died | November 6, 1825 Hinds County, Mississippi, U.S. | (aged 63)
Political party | Democratic-Republican |
Walter Daniel Leake (May 20, 1762 – November 6, 1825) served as a United States Senator from Mississippi (1817–1820) and as third Governor of Mississippi (1822–1825). He was the first Governor of Mississippi to die in office.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Walter Leake was born on May 20, 1762 in Albemarle County in the Colony of Virginia.[1] He was the son of Captain Mask Leake and nephew of Rev. Samuel Leake (Princeton University graduate and a member of the first Board of Trustees of Hampden–Sydney College), an ancestor of Senator John McCain of Arizona.
Career[]
He served in the United States Senate from 1817 to 1820. He was appointed to the Mississippi Supreme Court in 1821,[2] and went on to serve as the Governor of Mississippi from 1822 to 1825.[1]
Personal life[]
His daughter, Susan Wingfield Leake, married in 1807 Henry Goodloe Johnston of Spotsylvania County, Virginia and was an ancestor of Haley Reeves Barbour, the former Governor of Mississippi.[3]
Legacy[]
Leake County, Mississippi, as well as Leakesville, Mississippi are named for him.[4]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Thomas H. Somerville, "A Sketch of the Supreme Court of Mississippi", in Horace W. Fuller, ed.,The Green Bag, Vol. XI (1899), p. 505.
- ^ Franklin Lafayette Riley, School History of Mississippi: For Use in Public and Private Schools (1915), p. 380-82.
- ^ The Virginia magazine of history and biography, Volume 11 (Google eBook) (Virginia Historical Society, 1903)
- ^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 183.
- 1762 births
- 1825 deaths
- People from Albemarle County, Virginia
- Mississippi Democratic-Republicans
- Governors of Mississippi
- United States senators from Mississippi
- Democratic-Republican Party United States senators
- Democratic-Republican Party state governors of the United States
- Leake County, Mississippi
- Justices of the Mississippi Supreme Court