About David H. Leake
Lived 1875 – 1955 (aged 79). David H. Leake was an American politician.
David Harris Leake (July 13, 1875 – May 8, 1955) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates, representing Fluvanna and Goochland counties, and as general attorney of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
Early life Leake was born on July 13, 1875 at Midway, the Leake family home in Goochland County, Virginia. He was the eldest son of Judge Andrew Kean Leake (1842–1907) and Juliana Elizabeth Louise ( Harris) Leake (1856–1926). Among his siblings were Jane Margaret Leake Hubard, Louis Knight Leake, Walter Alexander Leake, Charles Lancelot Leake, Catherine Frederica Leake Swindell, and Eliza Overton Leake Cone. After his death in 1949, she married Vanderbilt family descendant James A. Burden III, eldest son of James A. Burden Jr. and Florence Adele Sloane, in 1951.
Leake died on May 8, 1955 in Richmond, Virginia. and David Hastings Walker, a yacht broker.
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American lawyer and politician (1875-1955)
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David H. Leake was born on 13 July 1875 in Goochland County.
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David H. Leake died on 8 May 1955 in Richmond, Virginia, Virginia.
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