Leonard Irving


Theodore Leonard Irving 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.
He attended the public schools of North Dakota.
He worked for a railroad as a boy and during the First World War.
He left the railroad to become manager of a theater in Montana.
He 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. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress.
Defeated for Democratic nomination in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress.
Labor organizer and later president of a labor union in Kansas City, Missouri.
He died on March 8, 1962 in Washington, D.C., while on a business trip. He was interred in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Kansas City.

Electoral history