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  Gavin, Leon H.
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NameLeon H. Gavin
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Oil City, Pennsylvania , United States
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Born February 25, 1893
DiedSeptember 15, 1963 (70 years)
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InfoGAVIN, Leon Harry, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y., February 25, 1893; moved to Oil City, Pa., in 1915; during the First World War served in the United States Army as a sergeant in the Fifty-first Infantry Regiment of the Sixth Division; served on the Defense Council of Venango County; member of the State Board of Appeals of the Selective Service System; executive secretary of the Oil City Chamber of Commerce; member of the National Migratory Bird Conservation Commission 1958-1963; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1943, until his death in Washington, D.C., September 15, 1963; interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

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  11/06/1962 PA District 23 Won 58.63% (+18.04%)
  05/15/1962 PA District 23 - R Primary Won 65.18% (+30.36%)
  11/08/1960 PA District 23 Won 62.38% (+25.62%)
  04/26/1960 PA District 23 - R Primary Won 83.09% (+66.19%)
  11/04/1958 PA - District 23 Won 61.14% (+22.29%)
  11/06/1956 PA - District 23 Won 66.09% (+32.19%)
  11/02/1954 PA - District 23 Won 61.87% (+23.74%)
  11/04/1952 PA - District 23 Won 67.82% (+35.65%)
  11/07/1950 PA - District 19 Won 62.76% (+25.52%)
  11/02/1948 PA - District 19 Won 63.70% (+27.40%)
  11/05/1946 PA - District 19 Won 68.03% (+38.19%)
  11/07/1944 PA - District 19 Won 63.29% (+28.05%)
  11/03/1942 PA - District 20 Won 64.51% (+30.03%)
  11/06/1934 PA - District 20 Lost 43.72% (-8.95%)
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