Walter Leake, Governor, U.S. Senator

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Walter Mask Leake (1762 - 1825)

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Birthplace: Albemarle County, VA, United States
Death: November 17, 1825 (63)
Hinds, Mississippi, USA
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Son of Captain Mask Leake and Patience Leake
Husband of Elizabeth Wingfield
Father of William M. Leake; Susan Wingfield Johnston; Walter Mask Leake, Jr.; Austin Leake; Lucy Keirn and 3 others
Brother of William Leake; DR. Samuel Leake; Lucy Leake; Austin D. Leake; Judith Leake and 5 others

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About Walter Leake, Governor, U.S. Senator

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Leake

Walter Leake (May 25, 1762 – November 17, 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. Leake County, Mississippi, as well as Leakesville, Mississippi are named for him.

A native Virginian, he was born in 1762 in Albemarle County, Virginia, 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. Walter Leake's daughter, Susan Wingfield Leake, married 1807 Henry Goodloe Johnston of Spotsylvania Co., VA and was an ancestor of Haley Reeves Barbour, the current Governor of Mississippi.

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Walter Leake, Governor, U.S. Senator's Timeline

1759
October 1, 1759
Albemarle County, Virginia, United States
1762
May 25, 1762
Albemarle County, VA, United States
1788
February 6, 1788
1792
August 15, 1792
1795
May 20, 1795
1797
1797
1800
November 10, 1800
1803
1803
1806
May 15, 1806
1825
November 17, 1825
Age 63
Hinds, Mississippi, USA