district succeeded death_date death_place birth_place party term_end preceded office birth_date term_start article_title state name restingplace
7th henry lee morey adoniram j. holmes 18 march 1895 toledo , ohio adams county , ohio democratic march 4 , 1883 1890 frank h. hurd george w. hooker sergeant representatives at arms of the united states house of 20 december 1847 march 4 , 1881 1884 john p. leedom
 ohio john peter leedom odd fellows cemetery , manchester , ohio
john p. leedom

john peter leedom -lrb- december 20 , 1847 -- march 18 , 1895 -rrb- was a u.s. representative from ohio .
born in adams county , ohio , leedom attended the common schools .
he graduated from smith 's mercantile college , portsmouth , ohio , in 1863 .
he went on to teach in the public schools of portsmouth , and engaged in agricultural pursuits .
leedom was elected clerk of the court of common pleas of adams county in 1874 and was reelected in 1877 .
he served as a member of the democratic state central committee in 1879 .
leedom was elected as a democrat to the forty-seventh congress -lrb- march 4 , 1881 -- march 4 , 1883 -rrb- .
he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the forty-eighth congress .
he later served as sergeant at arms of the house of representatives from 1884 to 1890 .
he died in toledo , ohio , and is interred in the odd fellows cemetery , manchester , ohio .
