Leonard Myers
Leonard Myers was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania during the American Civil War and the early years of Reconstruction.Biography
Leonard Myers was born in Attleboro, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia and studied law, but did not earn a degree.
He was major of the Ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, during the emergency service of September 1862 when Pennsylvania felt threatened by Robert E. Lee during the Maryland Campaign.
He was elected to Congress as a Republican in 1862. He successfully contested the election of John Moffet to the 41st Congress. He was reelected in 1868 and served until March 3, 1875. He served as Chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, United States House Committee on Patents, and United States House Committee on Private Land Claims. He was defeated in 1874.
